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standing confusion of Amorpha Sruticosa with A. Californica in 
the region of Arizona, New Mexico and Southern California that 
must have led Professor Greene to describe Nuttall’s true 
Amorpha Californica as a new species, A. hispidula.” Professor 
Greene seems to have become somewhat enraged, and in an 
appended note bristling with remarks concerning Mr. Holzin- 
ger’s ‘‘dogmatism,’’ ‘‘bald opinions,” “ entirely gratuitous 
suppositions,” etc., gives the luckless botanist who has presumed 
to differ from him, a sound verbal spanking. Nevertheless Mr. 
Holzinger is entirely correct as everyone at all conversant with 
the flora of California knows, and Mr. Greene as entirely wrong. 
Indeed his descriptions of A. Californica and A. hisfodula in Flora 
Franciscana convict him sufficiently. In the brief description 
there given he omits from the former, apparently intentionally, for 
as it appears in all descriptions he can hardly have been ignorant of 
it, Nuttall’s significant phrase ‘‘ petioles furnished with minute 
glandular scales.’’ At the risk of being accused of ‘‘ dogmatism ” 
I venture to state that 4. fruticosa enters Southern California 
where it has been collected not only by Dr. Palmer, but also by 
George W. Dunn who found it in the mountains near Julian 
something like forty miles north of the boundary. It grows 
also about the lower elevations of San Pedro Martir in Baja 
_ California, which is perhaps its southern limit. The range of 4. 
- Californica as at present known is from the southern border of 
Mendocino County along the Coast Range in various localities to 
San Pedro Martir, where it has recently been found on the summit 
plateau. Inthe Sierra Nevada foothills it appears to have been 
collected only at the Alabaster Cave not far from Auburn. The 
only habitat known for 4. Azspidula is the mind of Professor 
Greene. 
Fourth Annual Report of the Missourt Botanical Garden con- 
tains, besides the usual Reports, etc., a list of plants collected by 
Albert S. Hitchcock in the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Grand Cay- 
man, 132 pages, and four plates of the new species, Pavonia 
Bahamensis Witchcock, Anastraphia pauciflosculosa Wright, 
Euphorbia Blodgettii Engelm., and Eragrostis Bahamensis Hitch- 
cock. ‘The remainder of the volume is occupied by “ Further 
Studies of Yuccas and their Pollination’ by William Trelease. 
