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Lesstngia ‘‘ tennis”? Cov. L. vamnaleg var. tenuis Gray, of 
Bot. Cal. 1. 307, and Syn. FI. ii, 1, 162 “‘as to the pl. of Rothrock 
in Wheeler Rep. vi, 364. There is however an older var. tenuts, 
described in Proc. Am. Acad. vii, 351, belonging to Z. leptoclada 
which in Syn. Fl. Supp. 447 is reduced with Z. nemaclada Greene 
to L. lepioclada var. microcephala Gray. The printer has further 
complicated the matter by misprinting Mr. Coville’s specific 
name, and altogether botanists adopting the Sheldonian method 
will have a good subject. 
The specific name of Pluchea borealis is changed to sericea 
““(Nutt.) under Polypappus.” The species was first published in 
Emory’s Rep. 1848, p. 147 as ‘‘ TESSARIA BOREALIS DC. 
aromatic shrub about three os high growing in all the deserted 
beds of the Gila, and in the Valley of the Del Norte usually with 
the Frémontia both of which are abundant in those regions.” 
If this had been a plant of Rafinesque’s it would have probably 
been considered quite well authenticated. It is certainly quite 
as recognizable, being placed in its proper genus, and with a 
definite locality, as Nuttall’s later genus, sandwiched in between 
Micropus and Psathyrotes, and entirely without generic descrip- 
tion, though named as a new genus, described from a single 
‘imperfect specimen, apparently male,” and with the station 
** Rocky Mountains of Upper California.’’ 
Flelianthus invenustus Greene, was collected by Mr. Brande- 
gee at Sequoia Mills 1892, and its peculiarities noted in Zoe, July 
1893, Pp. 153: 
Layia is maintained instead of the recently resurrected Bleph- 
aripappus under which Prof. Greene has renamed the species. 
Chenactis attenuata can not be kept distinct from C. carphoc- 
“inia, every gradation is found between them. 
Lepidospartum striatum Cov. is L. latisguamum Wats. Proc. 
Am. Acad. xxv. 133.—both described from the same plants col- 
lected by Shockley. 
Adelia is taken up as an older name for Forestiera. 
Menodora spinescens is in Shockley’s collections from Cande- 
laria. 
Such species as Mavarretia setiloba are evidence that the 
National Herbarium is in need of such a set of the variations 
