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Phaca densifolia Smith in Rees’ Cycl. (1819) [vol. xxvii]. 
Ribes malvaceum Smith Rees’ Cycl. xxx (1815). 
Ribes ferox Smith Rees’ Cycl. xxix (1815). 
Ribes stamineum Smith Rees’ Cycl. (1815). [Smith’s paper 
on Ribes is eight pages in length, and entirely in Vol. xxx.] 
Viola adunca Smith Rees’ Cycl. (xxxvii) 1817. 
These are but examples of numerous others, a few of which 
will be noticed in subsequent pages, and yet, Mr. Greene, as is 
well known, poses as bibliographical purist, and is remarkably 
fond of pointing out the shortcomings of others in this respect.* 
The genera proposed by Mr. Greene are, with the notable 
exception of ‘‘ Biolettia,’’ founded on sections of other authors, 
on aberrant species to which attention had been called by others, 
or as substitutes for older names which he considers untenable. 
The changes made by the resurrecting of synonyms and the 
rejection of homonyms are of much greater extent and made as 
most of them are without judgment or sufficient research have 
inflicted an appalling synonymy upon the Flora of California. 
The principal generic changes so far made or adopted by 
Mr. Greene in his Flora Franciscana and other papers, are: 
Clematitis 1,. instead of Clematis I,. This is one of the 
changes in which Mr. Greene follows Otto Kuntze. It is 
effected by taking as the Linnean date the first edition of the 
Systema Naturze, two years earlier than the period commonly 
received. The additional syllable in the name seems the only 
thing to be gained by this transfer. 
Kumlienia, Greene founded on Ranunculus hystriculus, prin- 
cipally on the utricular akenes, though they are hardly more 
utricular than in RX. Nutfallii or even in the common R. Cymba- 
laria. : 
Chrysamphora, Greene for Darlingtonia because there is an - 
older Darlingtonia in synonymy. As, however, the ‘once a 
* The latest of these diatribes is to be found in ‘“ Erythea’’ for May, . 
1893, where the author, in the course of “damning with faint praise”’ 
Professor McMillan’s Metaspermz of the Minnesota Valley, says, ‘“‘We 
might have expected much of bibliographical laxity and inaccuracy in any 
author who could speak of Watson’s Index as being a book ‘remarkably 
exact’? 
