254 Recent Literature. [zoe 



i88(). By Sereno Watson. In the second ot these papers 

 eighty-six species are described as new. Bur sera pubescens is ad- 

 mitted to be identical with Veatchia Cedroseiisis Gray, but no men- 

 tion is made of the earlier name of Bentham (ScJiinus discolor) yet, 

 if priority of specific names is to be at all respected, this would ap- 

 pear to have the best of claims. It is not inappropriate, and has 

 been figured. In the first paper Sisymbrium humi/ttsum Vahl, is 

 referred to a proposed section Pseudarabis oi Arabis, and A. How- 

 ellii from the Siskiyou Mountains and from the White Mountains 

 of Mono County is described. Four new species of Streptanthus, 

 S. Lemmoni, S. barbatus, S. Arizonicus and 6". campcstris, are de- 

 scribed as new, and a conspectus of the genus given, recognizing 

 twenty-two species and reducing 6*. pcramcenus and 5". albidus 

 Greene, to 6". glandidosus Hook. Silene multiyiervia and Trifolium 

 Catalince are described from the Californian Islands, the former col- 

 lected also by C. R. Orcutt, Jamuel, San Diego County. Neither 

 of these species have the look of native plants, but the author states 

 that they have been compared with their nearest European relatives 

 and found sufficiently distinct. Additional localities for the first are 

 Santa Inez Mountains, back of Santa Barbara, and Pt. Sur, twenty- 

 five miles south of Monterey. The Trifolium has been collected at 

 Pt. Reyes. Astragalus Forwoodii, Aster Forwoodii, Artemisia 



Hieraciuni 



W 



Forwood, Two species of Vicia, 



V. TJmrberi and V. Hassei are separated from V. exigua Nutt. 



The genus Strophostylcs of Eliott Is restored for a section of Phas- 



eohcs. 



sp 



been separated are discussed, and a new species of Friogynia, 



ijl. 



In regard to the recent action of Prof Greene In reviving Lindley's 

 genus Schizonoius, and then creating a new generic name, Solanoa, 

 tor Dr. Gray's Asclepiadaceous genus Schizonotus, it Is shown that 

 the first one was antedated by Rafinesque's Basilima (1815) and the 

 synonymy resulting was uncalled for. Concerning Prof Greene's new 



Ncillia 



P J^ul-r TT f'' "'" ^^ ^" "° "'-^y separated from the ordinary 



P opuUfohus. M., N.mahacea, also, judging from the characters, appears to be 

 a co„,n^on form of P. Torreyi, though there are. perhaps, charaet^s other than 

 those given by him upon which that species can be divided." 



Frcmiastrum Orcuttii, from the Colorado Desert, Is named for 



