281 
Coreopsis in Dr. Gray’s arrangement in the Synoptical Flora would 
thus go to Bidens, with species of which they have everything 
else in common. Their names would then be as follows: 
BIDENs coronata (L.) Fisch. fide Steudel. Coreopsis coronata, L. 
Sp. Pl Ed. 2;.138:1 (1763). Coreopsis aurea, Ait. Hort. Kew. 
lil. 252 (1789). 
’ BIDENS TRICHOSPERMA (Michx.). Coreopsis trichosperma, Michx. F1. 
Bor. Amer. ii. 139 (1803). : 
V VAR. TENUILOBA (A, Gray).. C. trichosperma, var. tenuiloba, A, 
Gray, Syn. Fl. i. Part 2, 295 (1884). 
It appears to me as though further observation would demon- 
strate specific characters for this plant. 
’ BIDENS ARISTOSA (Michx.). Coreopsis aristosa, Michx. Fl. Bor. 
Amer. ii. 140 ( 1803). Coreopsis aristata, Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 
2253 (1804). 
V BIDENS INVOLUCRATA (Nutt.). Coreopsis involucrata, Nutt. Journ. 
__ Phil. Acad. vii. 74 (1834). 
* BIDENS BIDENTOIDES (Nutt.). Dzodonta bidentoides, Nutt. Trans. 
Amer. Phil. Soc. (IL) vii. 361 (1841). Coreopsis bidentoides, T. 
and G. Fl. N. A: ii. 339 (1842). 
’ Bivens DISCOIDEA (T. and G.). Coreopsis discoidea, T. and G. Fl. . 
N. A. ii. 339 (1842). 
Pseva, Raf. In his review of the botanical writings of Pursh, 
Elliott, Nuttall and others, published in the Journal de Physique, 
Ixxxix, 256262 (1819), Rafinesque states that Chzmaphila, Pursh, 
(1814) is antedated by Pseva, Raf. Med. Rep. 1809. This is al- 
luded to by Pfeiffer in the «« Nomenclator,’ and the name has been 
taken up and Chimaphila displaced by Dr. Kuntze (Rev. Gen. Pl., 
390), although neither of these authors appear to.,have seen Ra- 
finesque’s papers in the Medical Repository. There were several 
of these, published from 1805 to 1810. 1 wish to record here that 
I have recently gone over these papers line by line and can find 
no allusion to Pseva in any of them, nor have I met with the 
name in any of Rafinesque’s writings except at the place where 
he claims it as noted above. It would thus appear to date from _ 
1819 only, and not to interfere with Climaphila. Rafinesque evi- — 
dently derived it from the aboriginal name Pipsissewa, as in the 
case of Hicoria. ee a 
