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garis, for instance. No information is ‘‘ vouchsafed’’ as to whether 
the plants are annual, biennial, or perennial; both species are said 
to have ‘‘ about 5 pairs of leaflets,’ but whether scattered on long 
petioles or crowded near the top of them is left to the imagination 
along with such unconsidered trifles as stipules, bractlets, petals, 
stamens, styles, akenes, etc. Absolutely the only mention made of 
the floral organs is ‘‘ flowers small, yellow,” in one case, and corol- 
las nearly an inch in diameter, pale yellow,’’ in the other! 
Sanicula nemoralis is, as Mr. Greene remarks, the yellow-flowered 
form of SS. dipinnatifida. Sanicula saxatilis has been collected 
at Tehachapi, and is probably not uncommon about rocky summits. 
It has heretofore been considered a form of S: tuberosa. Sanicula 
séptentrionalis, described from an immature fragmentary specimen 
distributed under the name S. Nevadensis may easily be that species. 
Mr. Greene’s idea of the great importance of the outline, or degree 
of dissection of a dissected leaf will scarcely commend itself to 
botanists who know anything about Umbelliferee. Microseris indi. 
visa isa well-known form of AZ aphantocarpha. Senecio Blochmane 
is of course the entire-leaved form of .S. Douglasti, already provided 
with synonyms to spare. Peucedanum robustum was sent from the 
type locality to Coulter & Rose at the time of their revision of the 
Umbelliferee. They did not find it to be a new species. 
Mr. Jepson’s account of the mountain region of Clear Lake is re- 
markable chiefly for the things he did not observe. All the plants 
mentioned by him have been in the herbarium ofthe California Academy 
_ of Sciences for nearly ten years. .Streptanthus hesperidis is S. Breweri 
pure and simple. Arctostaphylos elegans is another of the absolutely 
_ inexcusable synonymswith which that long-suffering genus is becom- 
ing loaded. Gnaphalium bicolor is so imperfectly described that 
even the section to which it belongs can only be conjectured from 
the remark that it can readily be distinguished from G. leucocephalum. 
It is probably only a rather broader-leaved form of that species which 
belongs tothe division ‘‘leaves obviously adnate-decurrent, the upper 
face at least becoming naked and green in age, and with the stem 
glandular-pubescent or glandular viscid; herbage strongly balsamic- 
" scented; root lignescent-perennial.” : 
Apparently the best species, and certainly the best described is 
Collinsia Franciscana; but the description would have been much 
