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bury report the plate of this plant, No. 7, bears the name “ Mono- 
thrix stansburiana Torr.” It is evident that Monothrix does not 
have priority over Laphamia. 
Another change in the second edition is the reduction on page 
389 of Linosyris serrulata, published on the same page of the first 
edition, to varietal rank under Lznosyris viscidifora without any 
citation of the first edition. On page 395 there is also a change 
in the remarks under Advonia mellifera Doug., the wording in the 
first edition being as follows: A. micranthus, Torr. in Fremont’s 
first Report, p. 96, and in Emory’s Report, p. 149, seems to be a 
particular state of the plant Adronia mellifera, in which it bears 
very small but perfect flowers. In those works I noticed the 
peculiarity of the embryo; the inner, cotyledon being constantly 
abortive.” The second edition reads, “In Fremont’s first report, 
p. 96, and in Emory’s Report, p. 149, I noticed a peculiarity of 
the embryo; the inner cotyledon being constantly abortive.” 
Beyond these differences no change of importance occur in the 
botanical appendices of the two editions, the matter being almost 
identical, page for page and line for line, with the exception of 
the correction of a few typographical errors. 
Stansbury’s report appears also in a third form which hardly 
merits the name of an “edition.” It is the same precisely as the 
first edition, being printed from the same stereotype plates, except 
the title page, which is reset and dated 1855. In the absence of 
any reference to an earlier edition the date is wholly misleading. 
Studies in the Leguminosae.—I. 
By ANNA MURRAY VAIL. 
NOTES ON MEIBOMIA. 
MEIBOMIA ARENICOLA. 
Hechysarum lineatum Michx. F1. Bor. Am. 2: bes 1803. Not of 
Linn. Syst. Ed. 10, 1170. 1759. 
Desmodium lineatum DC. Prodr. 2: 330. 1825. 
: Meibomia lineata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 196. 1891. — 
