188 Recent Literature. [ ZOE 
Rep. 1809.’’ Dr. Britton says: ‘‘I wish to record here that I 
have recently gone over these papers line by line, and can find 
no allusion to Pseva in any of them, nor have I met with the 
name in any of Rafinesque’s writings except at the place where 
he claims it as noted above.’ The attempt to resurrect an 
earlier name for Polaniséa is disposed of as follows: ‘ Jacksonia, 
Raf. Med. Rep. (II) v, 352 (1808). Professor Greene has argued 
in Pittonia ii, 174 and 274 that this name should replace Polanisia 
Raf. Journ. Phys. Ixxxix, 98 (1819) but I cannot see that his 
position is tenable. /acksonia is published at the place above 
cited as follows: 
Jacksonia (trifoliata)—=Cleome dodecandra L. Now Cleome 
dadecandra, 1,. Sp. Rl. 672 is a well-known Indian species, 
Rafinesque evidently followed Michaux in supposing that it was 
North American, and Come dodecandra Mich. F\. Bor. Amer. ii, 
32; 1803, is indubitably the same as Polanisia graveolens Raf. Amer. 
Journ. Sci.i, 379 (1819) and not at all the plant of Linnzeus. In 
matters of nomenclature we must be exact and so it seems to me 
that /Jacksonia Raf. can only apply to the Asiatic, Linnzean, 
Cleome dodecandra. I do not find any allusion to Jacksonia in 
subsequent writings of Rafinesque, and presume that he dis- 
covered his error.’’ In the meantime, however, Professor Greene 
has made haste to transfer* the species of Polanisia to Jacksonia 
and under the head of « Corrections in Nomenclature ” fto trans- 
fer the three dozen species of the Australian, Leguminous 
genus /acksonéa to another name. 
The Range of Amorpha fruticosa. By JoHN M. HonziIncER 
of the U. S. National Herbarium. Under this heading Mr. 
Holzinger prints in Erythea for June some notes on specimens 
belonging to the U. S. N ational Herbarium which show that the 
range of the species is considerably farther extended than had 
been supposed. In the course of his examinations he found that 
the three sheets of this group belonging to Professor Greene’s 
herbarium, two of them labeled 4. Caltfornica Nutt. and one A. 
hispidula Greene, were in his opinion incorrectly named. Con- 
cerning them he wrote: <«“ There seems to have existed a long 
* Pitt. 3, 174. 
} Erythea, 114. 
