78 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



mistakes made matters worse. Iq one of his last papers m 

 Garden and Forest he admitted his mistake in using the name 

 ScouUriana and replaced it by what he considered the next 

 available name — capreoides (Anders.). But in giving the 

 synonymy he cites: ^^ S . flavescens var. Scoideriana Bebb, 

 Watson and Brewer, Bot. Calif. 2:86." As I have just 

 stated, it was really published, not in the Botany of Cali- 

 fornia, but in the Botanical Gazette some two years later. 

 Almost exactly contemporaneous with the Garden and Forest 

 paper appeared Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 3. No. 4, in 

 which Mr. Holzinger, reporting on a collection of plants, in- 

 serts the following {I. c. 251): " S. flavescens var. Scouleri- 

 ana (Barratt) Bebb, nom. nov." This is a palpable double 

 error, for neither the name nor the combination is new in 

 that place, the former having been published in 1839 and the 

 latter in 1882, as before stated. The mistake is probably 

 due to some misinterpretation of Mr. Bebb's notes. 



Finally Prof. Sargent, discovering that S. flavescens was a 

 homonym, renamed it 8. Nuttallii and transferred the variety 

 capreoides to the new specific name. Later, finding that 

 bracJnjstachys antedated capreoides by some fifteen months, he 

 adopted the former as the correct varietal name. While there 

 is no doubt as to its priority, it might have been advisable to 

 wait, before renaming the variations of a polymorphic spe- 

 cies, until it was certain that the two names really represented 

 the same variety. 



In general, the coast form is characterized by smaller 

 shorter aments, f-H inches long, and scales broadly obovate. 

 I cannot discover that the scales are less densely villous than- 

 those of the mountain type. 



Specimens examined. — Engelmann, S. ScouUriana, Seattle, I'uget Sd., 

 Jl. 18, 1880. — Heller, 5i6?i, Idaho PI., 1896. — Howell, ;?. ^S'cowienana, 

 Columbia R , Mar. 1880. — Macoun, 486, Herb. Geol. Surv, Canad., 1893. — 

 Parish, 5002, PL So. Calif., 1894. — Sandberg, Fl. N. A., Nez Perces Co., 

 Idaho, 1892. —Wright, ( ), Mt. San Bernardino, Calif. 1880. 



S. ROSTRATA Richard SOU. 



S. rostrata Richards., Frankl. Jour., App. 753. 1823. 



S. vagans var. occidentalis Anders., Sal. Bor.-Am, 62 (16). 1858. 



