regions to the Mediterranean in Kurope ; to Asia Minor and 
the Himalaya in Asia; and to New Mexico in the Western 
States of America, and Carolina in the Eastern. Of all 
the species none occupies a wider geographical area than 
A. Fischeri, namely in Hastern Asia from Kamtschatka to the 
‘Yang-tse-kiang in China, in Corea and Japan, and in 
N. America from Alaska and British Columbia to New 
Mexico, and if American botanists are correct, to the 
Kastern States. I have collected it in company with Dr. 
Gray in Southern Colorado on the border of the latter 
country, on the La Veta Pass at ten thousand feet eleva- 
tion, and further north in both the Rocky Mountains and 
Sierra Nevada. 
It needs hardly be said that with this wide distribution 
A. Fischeri varies much, and I am far from supposing that 
the long list of synonyms collected above with consider- 
able labour is inexhaustive ; for it appears to me probable 
that certain allies, some scandent and some more tomen- 
tose, may have to be specifically incorporated with it, as A. 
volubile, Pall., A. villosum, Reichb., and A. noveboracense, 
A. Gray, Manual, Ed. vi, p. 47; and all may go — 
into A. wneinatum, Linn. Into this extended inquiry I 
am not prepared to go without an exhaustive examination ' 
of specimens that would take much time and labour. I 
can only state here that the principal distinctive character 
adduced for uncinatum by De Candolle is the evanescent 
wings of the filaments, which, however, are well developed 
iA. Gray’s figure (in Gen. N. Am. Plants). The seg-. 
_ tents of its leaves are broader than in the Western 
American plant, and in the common forms of the Asiatic, 
but in some specimens of the latter there is no difference 
in this respect. 
The A, chinense, Sieb. (Tab. $852 of this work), is at 
once distinguished by its semicircular hood; but I do not 
see how the N. American A, unemmatum, Linn., of this 
Magazine, Plate 1119 (and which is, I suppose, A. Gray’s 
A, noveboracense), is to be specifically distinguished. ; 
The specimen here figured was received at the Royal 
Gardens from Mr. Max Leichtlin, in 1886, under the name 
of A. californicum, and the drawi : 
of last year.—J. D. H. o ereNiniG, W UR toads at OCvORs 
om Agee a sf estes with petals and stamens, enlarged; 2, young fruit 
