327 
Umbellularia Californica, Nutt. Sylv. i. 87. 
South Peak. 
Salix lasiolepis, Benth. Pl. Hartw. 335. 
Butte Pass. 
Populus Fremontii, Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 350. 
Mahon’s Landing, Feather River. 
Quercus Wislisenti, ADC. Prodr. xviz. 67. 
Lower slopes of South Peak. 
Quercus dumosa, Nutt. Sylva. i. 7 
At about 1000 ft. This is an oak of southern rather than 
northern California. Jt has been found as far north in the Coast 
Range as the vicinity of Clear Lake. 
Aristolochia Californica, Torr. Pac. R. Rep. iv. 128. 
Summit of South Peak. 
Tritelia txtoides (Ait. f.), Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. ii. 42. 
On the slopes of South Peak. 
Tritelia laxa, Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. n. ser. i. 423. t. 15. 
Sutter City and the Buttes. 
Brodiea capitata, Benth. Pl. Hartw. 339. 
Butte Pass, 
On the Citing of Ancient Botanical Authors. 
By N.-L. Britton, 
My review of Professor Greene’s “‘ Flora Franciscana ” (BUL- 
LETIN, this volume, pp. 158-160), has been made by him the text 
of a most scholarly paper in the recent pages of his “ Pittonia.” 
His explanations, arguments and criticisms of my remarks are 
most skillfully drawn, and it is with a feeling that. I have but 
little chance to win in the friendly dispute that I again essay to 
break a lance with him. However, it is perhaps desirable that I 
should have another word before my position shall have been ren- 
dered entirely untenable. 
I have not accused my friend of originality in attributing 
generic names to the ancient Greeks and Romans. I am well 
aware of the truth of his statement, that he has not “entered up- 
on course of procedure which has not been taken by learned and 
famous botanists at one time and another within the last century,” 
even so lately as Baron F. von Mueller’s ‘Second Systematic 
