vot. 1v.] Writings of Edward L. Greene. 67 
slightly irregular, it is still an unimpeachably circumscissile 
dehiscence.” . 
The fruit of Garrya, ‘‘ pyxis’’ Mr. Greene calls it, is what is 
known to most botanists as an ‘‘indehiscent berry.’’ It is in fact 
about as dehiscent and in just the same manner as a gooseberry, 
Both of them have their tissues strengthened at base and apex 
and when subjected to violence burst irregularly along the line of 
least resistance, but if preserved from violence and decay neither 
of them would ‘‘ dehisce” in a thousand years. He discourses 
learnedly concerning Cicuta Californica and its root character* 
but some kind friend having pointed out his blunder he is 
obliged to admit} that he had mistaken G:xanthe Californica for 
Cicuta and that his remarks do not apply; nevertheless undis- 
mayed he proceeds to separate, on root characters alone, three 
new species from C. maculata—he thinks one of them may be 
Sium Douglasii, but not being certain takes his usual and easiest 
method—makes a new species. 
He insists upon dismembering the Composite, separating the 
Cichoriacecet which he considers more closely allied to the Lobeli- 
aceze than to their present companions—making the possession 
of a milky juice of more importance in classification than details 
of structure. Itis a relief to find that he does not drag Asclepias, 
Papaver, Euphorbia, and the Cow tree into the partnership. 
; His devotion to archaic botany seems to interfere somewhat 
with a due regard to contemporary literature, as, for instance, in 
his lengthy account of Carpenteria, § where he made the rest of 
the world aware that he thought a plant in quite common culti- 
vation was still known only in the type specimen; in his rather 
frequent homonyms and in such instances as Eriogynia Hender- 
soni|| and Cnicus heterolepis,4| both of which he redescribes, 
being ‘‘ unable to find that any description was ever published,” 
though the first appeared in the Botanical Gazette for 1891, 
and the second (under Cirsium) in Plante Hartwegiane. 
7 Pict, 4, dots 
+ Pitt. ii, 6. 
t Pitt. i, 298. Erythea, i, |. 
@ Pitt. ii, 67, r4r. 
|| Pitt. ii, 219. 
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