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RUBUS PARVIFLORUS, Nutt. Gen. i. 309 (18 1 8). 

 Rubus Nutkanus, M09. Seringe in DC. Prodr. ii. 566 (1825). 

 Publication cannot date from drawings, any more than from 

 manuscripts, so long as they remain mere engraver's or printer's 



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copy; and the named drawings of Nutkan plants by Mofino 

 passed into pubHcity by means of the several volumes of the 

 Prodromus; hence Nuttall's name for this widely dispersed west- 

 ern Riibus must be preferred in place of that now long in vogue, 

 for it has priority of publication by seven years. When the 

 species first became known there were doubts expressed in vari- 

 ous quarters as to its distinctness from the eastern R. odoratus; 

 but such doubts no longer obtain, although rose-tinted petals 

 lately observed in some individuals of our western and usually 

 white-flowered shrub, and the fragrance of the flowers, not at 

 first noted, together reassert the close afiinitv. 



Along the Californian coast this Riibus takes on a firmer 

 texture of foliage, and therewith an almost velvety vestiture of 

 pubescence, — differences quite sufficient to place it in the rank of 

 a named variety. At first it was even regarded as a valid species 

 {R. velutinns, H. ^ K.) and its name should be Rubus parvi- 



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(H. & A.) 



Gleditschia INERMIS, Crantz, Inst. Rei Herb, i. 219 (1766). 



The bibliography of this tree, as given at page no of 

 volume XV. of this Journal, must be amended in accordance with 

 the fact that Crantz (not Miller), is the real author of this name. 



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A New Species of Rhexia. 



(riate XCIX.) 



RiLEXiA ARISTOSA. Stem square, slender, about 7 dm. 

 high, branching above, entirely smooth ; leaves lanceolate-linear 

 and linear-oblong, 2-3 cm." long, ^-6 mm. wide, sessile, erect, 

 obtuse or obtusish at each end, serrate toward the apex with ap- 

 pressed subulate teeth, the lower surface entirely smooth with the 

 three ribs prominent, the upper surface with scattered, subulate 

 hairs and the ribs impressed; flowers 1-3 at the summits of the 

 stem and branches, borne on short peduncles; calyx urccolate, 

 its mouth and linear lobes armed "with stiff, yellow, subulate hairs; 

 corolla 4 cm. broad when expanded; petals magenta- red, un- 



