change proposed by Dr. Lindley, and which we have adopted.” 
We think not, under these circumstances: botanists, too, fre- 
quently increase the similarity of the names by writing H/sholtzia 
of Willdenow, in Labiate, Elscholtzia. 
If there be doubt or difficulty in the determination of the 
generic name, we fear that still greater difficulties attend the de- 
termination of the several species described. We give the pre- 
sent plant, with the name of Z. ¢enuifolia, Benth., as we received 
it from our friends Messrs. Veitch, and such we believe it to 
be, for it sufficiently accords with authentic specimens of that 
species in our Herbarium; but we are bound to say it almost 
equally accords with those of B. cespitosa and EL. hypecoides. 
The able author of all these, Mr. Bentham, indeed, says of #. 
tenuifolia : “ Stature and flowers of £. cespitosa, but easily dis- 
tinguished by its very finely cut leaves, and by the form of the 
calyx.” Of HF. hypecoides, he says: “ Habit of #. Californica ; 
but the leaves are much smaller, and the flowers not one-third 
of the size.” An extensive suite of specimens in our Her- 
barium show that they are liable to much variation in the size 
of the flowers,’ in the greater or less slenderness of the seg- 
ments of the leaves, and especially in the form of the calycine 
cup; so that I fear I may say of this present species, in relation 
to &. caspitosa and hypecoides, the same as Dr. Lindley has said 
of his Chryseis compacta (Bot. Reg. t. 1948) in relation to the 
Californica, Lindl. (not Cham., C. Douglasii, Hook.), and C. 
erocea, Lindl., (Culifornica vera, Cham.) ; viz., “If they are dis- 
tinct, so is this; but if they are only varieties of one species, this 
must be reduced to that species also.” 
Even as distinguished from the larger-flowered kinds of Zsch- 
scholtzia, the differences are not great; and may be summed up 
in few words better than by a laboured description —Our Z. 
tenuifolia has a dense, compact, erect habit, a good deal branched 
near the base. eaves very crowded, mostly subradical, two- 
thirds as long as the stems; segments linear-subulate. Flowers 
small, uniform, yellow ; calycine cup almost cylindrical, scarcely 
dilated at the margin. 
Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Flower-bud. 3. Stamen. 4. Calycine cup and _pistil :— 
magnified. 
