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~ VIOLA FLAVOVIRENS 0. sp. 
Mature plant 2-3 dm. high, subcaulescent, from a slender root- 
stock; leaves of a yellowish-green hue, long-petioled, oblanceo- 
late or oblong, very obtuse at apex, tapering at base, and decur- 
rent upon the petiole; margins ciliate, remotely and obscurely 
denticulate; both surfaces of the blade, particularly along the 
veins, clothed with fine white hirsute pubescence, which is also 
prominent on both petioles and fpeduncles; flowers borne well 
above the leaves (peduncles 1-3 dm. long), bright yellow, faintly 
veined with purple, the lateral petals slightly bearded; diameter 
of flower 2% cm.; sepals: narrowly linear, finely ciliate ; capsule 
not Observed. 
Types collected by A. A. Heller, at Lake Waha, Nez Perces 
County, Idaho, June 3d and 4th, 1896 (no. 3106), also by Messrs. 
Sandberg, Heller and-MacDougal, at the same locality May 22, 
1892 (no. 222). In both cases distributed as V. Wuttalli, a 
diminutive species to which it is scarcely at all related. Speci- 
mens collected by L. F. Henderson, at Julietta, Idaho, and by. 
Howell, at Hood River, Oregon, 1880, are evidently referable also 
to V. flavovirens. 
The Genus Oxytria of Rafinesque. 
By CHARLES LoutIs, POLLARD. 
There is a small genus of delicate Liliaceous plants in the 
South Atlantic and Gulf States, known in our manuals under the 
name of Schoenolirion, in which the synonymy is exceedingly 
confused, and the species have passed under a variety of generic 
appellations. Michaux established the name Phalangium croceum* 
for a plant with “pyramidal raceme” and saffron yellow flowers, 
native of southern Georgia. As Phalangium Juss. is a synonym 
of Anthericum L., it was necessary to give the plant another ge- 
neric appellation, and Elliott, having what he supposed to be 
Michaux’s plant,+ although the flowers were white, transferred the 
species to Ornithogalum with a question mark. (Bot. S. C. & Ga. 
I: 397. 1821.) Rafinesque, in Fl. Tell. 2: 26, 1836, established 
two genera, Oxytria and Amblostima, basing the former on Pha- 
*Fl. Bor. Amer. r: 196, 1803. £ 
t Dr. Gray has already made this point clear; See Amer. Nat, 10: 427. 1876. 
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