voL.Iv.] £. L. Greene versus Asa Gray. 287 
land. Mr. Jared found it growing abundantly near the old wharf 
at Point Sal. 
Calamintha mimuloides Benth. is reported, in the Botany of 
California, from the Carmel River, Monterey County. It has 
recently been discovered by Dr. H. E. Hasse at Acton, Cotton- 
wood Cafion, San Bernardino Range, Los Angeles County. 
A.B. 
EK. lL. GREENE VERSUS ASA GRAY. 
Edward L. Greene, Professor of botany at the State University © 
of California, makes, in the August number of the Torrey Club 
Bulletin, an entirely uncalled-for attack upon the greatest sys- 
tematic botanist America has produced, and as that journal has a 
rather restricted circulation on the Pacific Coast, the paper is here 
reproduced that botanists of the West may have an opportunity 
of judging what manner of defense Professor Greene is able to 
make against criticism and what weapons he is capable of using. 
Few will believe that this article would ever have appeared if 
Gray were living. 
NEW HONORS TO OLD WEEDS. 
BY EDW. L. GREENE. 
The modern history of Californian botany was taken up by men who 
had never seen the field of their researches, and who had no conception of 
the number of foreign plants that had become naturalized in this part from 
Europe a hundred years ago. Many of these had not made their appearance 
in New England, and were unfamiliar to New England botanists. Several. 
such plants, well-known to botanists in general for several centuries, 
obtained new names at the hands of writers of the East, as if they had been 
quite new to science. Dr. Britton, in the last issue of this journal, has been 
able to identify as old, one of my own supposed new plants; and I may here 
be allowed to indicate that botanists of note have added to synonymy in this 
Asa Gray, in his day, gave new names to not less than 
weeds of the Old World, the 
from this unsuspected habitat of 
manner, before me. 
five extremely common and familiar 
specimens of which had come to him 
California. 
When, nearly twenty years ago, the prese 
arvensis from California, his letter in answer s 
this to be an exclusively Californian species, the 
and when, a few weeks later, the real C. Californicus W' 
named this C. Seldanella, an Old World speci2s. But errors 0 
nt writer sent him Convol/vulus 
hows that he had considered 
C. Californicus, of Choisy; 
as transmitted, he 
f this kind, of 
