CICHORIACEAE. 59 
white-venulose above, paler and sparsely pubescent beneath, with 
short curved hairs; cymes many-flowered and dense, especially 
the terminal one, which is far surpassed by all the others; 
branches of the cymes, the pedicels, and often the calyx pubes- 
cent; sepals lanceolate, acute, of more than half the length 
of the small corolla, this yellowish white, often tinged with 
flesh-color. 
Frequent in the salt marshes of Suisun Bay, California, the 
type specimens by Mr. Baker, n. 3247, from near Suisun, 6 
June, 1903. The plant enters into the composition of the A. 
cannabinum of my Manual, but it is far enough from being the 
same as the eastern plant. 
A. MYRIANTHUM. About 3 feet high; pale-green, glaucous ; 
simple below, dichotomously branched at summit; the very 
large and dense terminal panicle of cymes greatly surpassed by 
the smaller lateral ones; leaves oblong-lanceolate to elliptical, 
the cauline about 4 inches long, all tapering abruptly to a short 
petiole, and abruptly though hardly mucronately acute; the 
venation not conspicuous above, somewhat so beneath; flowers 
very small, little more than a line long, greenish; sepals lanceo- 
late, equalling or exceeding the tube of the cylindric corolla. 
Known only as collected by myself along the Humboldt 
River at Palisade, Nevada, 24 July, 1893. 
Affinities of the Cichoriaceae. 
There is before me printed evidence of mental disquiet over 
the fact that in certain books of recent publication the Cichori- 
aceæ are not placed “after the Composite proper,” but before 
them (Rhodora, vi, 62) ; and as there is little room for doubt about 
my being responsible as having suggested not only to the late 
lamented author of the Flora of Pennsylvania, but also to the 
writers of two or three more extensive and influential treatises 
the advisability of receiving this group of plants in the rank of 
a Natural Family apart from the Composite ( Pittonia, 1, 295, 
and Bay-Region Manual, 219), it belongs naturally to myself 
to direct the attention of any mind openly professing to be ex. 
ercised about these matters, to some part at least, of the much 
that has been written in times past relating to them. 
