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certainly very fortunate that Mr. Allen is to makea systematic study 
of the problem. 
Spinus psaltria arizone. 
Ammodramus sandwichensis savanna. 
_ Lonotrichia albicollis. 
Spizella monticola ochracea. (?) — Haywards. Dr. Cooper. No 
specimens collected. 
Funco hyemalis. 
Melospiza fasciata rufina.—Haywards, November 23, 1882. (Em- 
erson, Zoe i, 2, p. 45.) 
Passerella tliaca. 
Piranga rubriceps. 
Vireo flavoviridis. 
Mniotilta varia. 
Dendroica cerulescens. ‘ 
Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis. 
Setophaga ruticilla. 
Galeoscoptes carolinensis. 
Merula conjinis. oe 
CALIFORNIAN LOBELIACE#. 
BY KATHARINE BRANDEGEE. 
Only one species belonging to the genus Lobelia, as at present 
recognized, has so far been detected within our borders, though 
one closely related genus abounds, and species belonging to two 
others are occasionally collected. 
Palmerella described from northern Lower California is separated 
from Lobelia only by its adnate stamens and entire corolla-tube. It 
is accepted as a genus by Bentham & Hooker, Geni. Pl. ii, 1238, but 
compared with Isotoma, of which there is one West Indian species. 
Baillon in Histoire des Plantes, viii, 322, unites it and nearly all the 
neighboring genera to Lobelia. In this he is followed by Prof. E. 
L. Greene of Berkeley, who, finding the names of the species of 
Palmerella preoccupied* in Lobelia, promptly furnishes new ones, © 
- * Pitt, i, 291. The specific name, Palmerella debilis Gray, is apparently changed 
because of A/onopsis debilis; the genus Monopsis having been reduced by Baillon 
and Benth. & Hook. toa section of Lobelia. It is, however, re-affirmed by emi- 
nent authority—Urban in Jahrb. Bot. Mus. i, 260, and Schénland in Pflanzen- 
familien. P. ¢eneru suffers a similar change on account of Lobelia tenera HBK., a 
species noted by De Candolle as ‘‘/. pauciflore simillima,” ae 
Under the circumstances we might well have been spared the synonyms. 
