210 LEAFLETS. 
N. DECAPETALA. Pursh, under Bartonia, 
N. NUDA. DI DI DÉI 
N. MULTIFLORA. Nutt, $ £ 
N. LAEVICAULIS. Dougl.in Hook, “ ‘£ 
N. PARVIFLORA. s E bad K 
N. CHRYSANTHA. Engelm, nr Mentzelia. 
N. PTEROSPERMA. Eastw, We d 
N. WRIGHTII, Gray, SG $ 
N. BRANDEGEI. Wats, $ “í 
N. DENSA. Greene, X < 
N. LUTEA. Greene, SS e 
N. SowrA, Nutt., sf = 
N. speciosa. Osterh., éi ee 
N. stricta. Osterh., << Hesperaster. 
The Genus Bossekia. 
Necker was among those early in the field of championship 
for multitudinous good genera which Linnaeus had of late been 
so bold as to suppress. He must needs have taken up the case 
of the Linnaean aggregate Rubus, and in doing this he left in 
Rubus what for centuries before Linnaeus had constituted the 
genus, namely the shrubs with compound leaves and clustered 
flowers. Dalibarda he restored in deference to its simple leaves 
and monanthous peduncles. He also so defined it as that it might 
include the still older genus Chamemorus, which, by the way, 
was not regarded as either a blackberry or raspberry, but as a 
mulberry, the very name telling us this. 
Upon the one remaining simple-leaved Linnaean Rudus he sought 
to establish a new genus, calling it Bossexra (Neck. Elem., ii, 91.) 
Mr. Rydberg must be credited with having fortified this genus by 
some new characters, and I for having relieved it of a name 80 
cheap and ill-made as Rudacer, the author of which might have 
avoided the framing of any new name at all, had he learned, as 
I have, by long experience, to distrust the Kew Index as to what 
genera have been published; for there are, perhaps, some scores 
