Pursh proposed a new combination for Malva coccinea. It was long felt this was the first place of publication for the name until it was shown that the names in Fraser's Catalogue were validly published (Reveal, 1968) a few months before Pursh's book appeared in print. As a result the typification of the name on Lewis and Clark material proposed by Cutright (1969: 407) is inappropriate. On 20 Jul 1806 Lewis was along the Marias River in Toole Co., Montana, and reports several species of plants were "in full blume" (Moulton, 1993: 119). On the same day, Clark was camped along the Yellowstone River north of the mouth of Clarks Fork (Moulton, 1993: 208-209). While either explorer could have found the species, most likely this is a Lewis collection. Pursh provides a full description in Latin and indicates he saw Lewis material as well as garden specimens. Specimens on the Lambert sheet (PH-LC 208) are at odds with the specimens on the sheet retained by the American Philosophical Society. We suspect the majority (if not all) of fragments on the Lambert sheet represent garden specimens grown from seeds obtained by Nuttall on the upper Missouri in 1811. None of the fragments truly match the fragments on PH-LC 207 in terms of age and condition. In this instance, it is probably that the original Lewis and Clark fragments were discarded in favor of the flowering, garden specimens. As a result, we conclude PH-LC 208 is not an authentic Lewis and Clark collection. (The Lewis & Clark Herbarium Digital Imagery Study Set, ANSP, 2002) On deposit at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia Collected by:Meriwether Lewis & William Clark Collection date:07/20/1806