vol. Iv.] Writings of Edward L. Greene. —— 87 
Sciences shows that the plant is only slightly more fleshy than 
in typical xanus, which may perhaps be accounted for by its 
vicinity to the coast, that the keel is ciliate and that the upper 
half of the banner is white, becoming rose-purple in age. 
The author’s motive for making and reiterating statements of 
this kind which may be so readily disproved is a psychical 
problem past finding out. ~ 
The forms of ZL. microcarpus Sims approach ZL. brevicaulis 
Wats. very closely and Mr. Greene has not helped matters by 
creating ZL. malacophyllus between them. 
The perennial Lupines of Mr. Greene are in even worse case. 
The trouble with them is that they are nearly all intermediates 
in groups of species already too nearly related, and extensive 
revisions with consultations of distant types are necessary to 
determine their true names. 
Amorpha hispidula Greene is A. Californica Nutt. ‘‘ The 
_ prickle-like glands interspersed among the depressed and sessile”’ 
are very common in glandular Leguminose. When, as nearly 
always happens in age, the upper part of the gland breaks away 
the remaining basal portion is the ‘‘ depressed and sessile ’’ one. 
Hlosackia Veatchit Greene, Syrmatium dendroideum Greene 
and Syrmatium patens Greene, are forms of Hosackia glabra. 
Hlosackia nivea Wats. is a synonym of H. argyrea Greene, 
but this did not prevent Mr. Greene from making a subsequent 
Syrmatium niveum. ‘This last, however, as well as S. ornith- 
opus Greene is too near /7/. argophylla Gray. 
Hosackia procumbens Greene is apparently H. sericea Benth. 
Hosackia Guadalupensis Greene and probably H. occulta* 
Greene, described from seedling specimens without flowers or 
fruit, belong to 7. grandiflora Benth. 
Hosackia macrantha Greene and Lotus leucopheus Greene are 
both Hosackia grandiflora var. anthylloides Gray. Mr. Greene 
in the original description of H. macrantha discourses concerning 
the subulate glands—he calls them “‘foliaceous.” They are 
alike in all the forms of H. grandiflora and very nearly so in all 
* Bull. Cal. Acad. ii, 394. Mr. Greene in his enumeration of the 
species in Pitt. ii, 133-150, omits this name, although in the original descrip- 
_tion it is characterized a as ‘‘ this unquestionably new species.” 
