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be considered a contribution to the methods by which similar 

 problems may be handled by the Nation in the future. In the 

 administration of the National Forests there is being developed 

 gradually what I believe to be a truly scientific system for at- 

 taining a concrete economic end, a system of controlling certain 

 correlated industries tvith a single purpose in view — the maxi- 

 mum of the welfare of the Nation as a whole. In spite of many 

 mistakes which we have undoubtedly made and which we have 

 attempted to correct as we went along, in spite of the lack of 

 practice and experience in solving the problems at hand, this new 

 policy, it seems to me, has already proved to be entirely safe 

 and workable. 



BOTANY. — A new genus of Chenopodiaceae,^ from Arizona. 

 Paul C. Standley, National Museum. 



While examining some sheets of Chenopodiaceae from the 

 herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden not long ago the 

 writer came upon one consisting of specimens of a low shrub, 

 from northern Arizona, which in general appearance were exactly 

 like Grayia brandegei; and being only in flower they were so 

 labeled, although that species was not otherwise known from 

 Arizona. The specimens Vv^ere associated with this rare species 

 quite naturally, for the writer knew there was no other described 

 member of the Chenopodiaceae in the Southwest that was similar 

 .in general aspect. 



More recently Mrs. Walter Hough has generously presented 

 to the U. S. National Museum an interesting collection of plants, 

 gathered chiefly in northern Arizona in 1896 and 1897. While 

 inspecting the sheets of this accession the writer's attention was 

 drawn to one which at once recalled the specimen just mentioned. 

 This second one, however, was in mature fruit and showed clearly 

 that the plant was no Grayia. Careful examination definitely 

 placed it as a member of the Atripliceae, but as scarcely refer- 

 able 'to any known genus. While, unfortunately, this curious 

 shrub is known only from pistillate branches, the staminate flowers 



1 Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



