224 LEAFLETS. 
The Genus Batanthes. 
This, as set forth by Rafinesque in the Atlantic Journal, p. 
145, is not a genus, but an aggregate of three. My own usage 
in such cases, however, has been that of those who hold that the 
name of a genus stands or falls with that of the first species 
enumerated under it, unless the character given excludes such 
first species and points to one of the others as having been the 
author’s type species. In the present instance the character is 
equally that of all three of the included species. One must, 
then, either suppress the name BaTANTHES, or else support it 
for that genus of which Cantua aggregata of Pursh is the oldest 
type. This will reduce to synonymy Callisteris, of page 159 
preceding, the known species of which may take names as fol- 
lows under BATANTHES. 
B. AGGREGATA, Raf., Atl. Journ., 145, Cantua aggregata, Pursh; 
probably not Callisteris aggregata, Greene, Leafl., I, 159, for Mr. 
C. V. Piper, who has given careful attention to the localities of 
many of Pursh’s types, tells me it is certain that Cantua aggre- 
gata came from the Pacific slope of the continent. 
B. SCOPULORUM. Callisteris aggregata, Greene, l. c. excl. syn. 
B. COLLINA. Greene, 1. c. under Callisteris. 
B. LEUCANTHA. e e D 
B. ATTENUATA. D ve ce 
B. FOKMOSISSIMA. “ ce ve 
B. FLAVIDA. “ ee ee 
B. TEXANA. 6c ce Ce 
B. ARIZONICA. “ ce ve 
B. BRIDGESII. “ “ ee 
B. PULCHELLA. Wé D ve 
Four Streptanthoid Genera. 
This is a continuation of studies published in part on pages 81 
to 90 preceding. In those paragraphs only the Californian strep- 
tanthoid types are dealt with. All the genera now proposed 
