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Greene’s remarks in Pitt. ii, 24 where he renames it 7. hes-. 
pertum under which name it occurs in his local floras. 
Brasenia purpurea Michx. under Hydropeltis, 1803, is taken 
up in the place of Brasenia peltata Pursh, 1814: Brasenia was 
characterized by Schreber in Gen. Pl. ed. viii, 1789, and to the 
single species the name Schreber? was applied by Gmelin in 
Systema Nature, ed. iii, 853, 1791 
Argémone platyceras collected on the desert is of course the 
form of that species collected by the writer at one of the railway 
stations between Amboy and the Needles, and described by Mr. 
Greene as A. corymbosa. 
Cleomella brevipes grows abundantly*about Newberry Station, 
where it was collected in 1884 
Tsomeris arborea globosa Cov. is in the herbarium of the Cali- 
fornia Academy of Sciences in every gradation between it and 
the typical form. Specimens collected by the writer between 
Caliente and Keene Station with very large globose pods have 
no groove in the seed. Specimens with long narrow pods from 
Calamajuet, Lower California have a deep groove. The same 
form from San Diego has no groove. All the forms grow 
together on the slopes of Tehachapi. 
Malveopsts is accepted by the author as the older name of 
Malvastrum. Mr. KE. G. Baker, however, in the course of his 
enumeration of the Malvacez, says that the type of Malvzeopsis 
was a Spheeralcea, wrongly identified by Otto Kuntze as a spe- 
cies of Malvastrum 
Fremontia is changed to ‘‘ Fremontodendron’’ on account of 
the previous /rvemontia a synonym of Sarcobatus. 
Purshia glandulosa is kept up under Azunzia. In the 
opinion of the writer it is a not very distinct variety. 
Mentzelia reflexa Coville was collected by the writer in the 
vicinity of Bagdad, on the Mojave Desert, in 1884. 
Aplopappus interior Coville is evidently the form of 4. lineart- 
folius which prevails at a distance from the Coast. A good 
series of the forms approaching it would probably have modified 
the author’s views. 
Aster mohavensis Coville, ‘‘It cannot, however, retain its 
original specific name, since Michaux described an Aséer fortt- 
folius which is now referred to Sericocarpus tortifolius.”” 
