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garis, for instance. No information is "vouchsafed" as to whether 

 the plants are annual, biennial, or perennial; both species are said 

 to have "about 5 pairs of leaflets," but whether scattered on long" 

 petioles or crowded near the top of them is left to the imagination 

 along with such unconsidered trifles as stipules, bractlets, petals, 

 stamens, styles, akenes, etc. Absolutely the only mention made of 

 the floral organs is "flowers small, yellow," in one case, and corol- 

 las nearly an inch in diameter, pale yellow," in the other! 



Sanicida ne?noralis is, as Mr. Greene remarks, the yellow-flowered 

 form of 61 bipi7inatijida. Sanicula saxatilis has been collected 

 at Tehachapi, and is probably not uncommon about rocky summits. 

 It has heretofore been considered d^ioxva oi S. ttiberosa. Sanicula 

 septentrionalis, described from an immature fragmentary specimen 

 distributed under the name S. Nevadensis may easily be that species. 

 Mr. Greene's idea of the great importance of the outline, or degree 

 of dissection of a dissected leaf will scarcely commend itself to 

 botanists who know anything about Umbelliferse. Microseris indi- 

 visa is a well-known form of M. aphantocarpha. Se7iecio Blochmancr 

 is of course the entire-leaved form of ^S". Z^t'w^/aj'//, already provided 

 with synonyms to spare. Peiicedanum t'ohistiim was sent from the 

 type locality to Coulter & Rose at the time of their revision of the 

 Umbelliferse. They did not find it to be a new species. 



Mr. Jepson's account of the mountain region of Clear Lake is re- 

 markable chiefly for the things he did not observe. All the plants 

 mentioned by him have been in the herbarium of the California Academy 

 of Sciences for nearly ten years. Streptanthiis hesperidis is S, Breweri 

 pure and simple. Arctostaphylos elegans is another of the absolutely 

 inexcusable synonyms with which that long-suffering genus is becom- 

 ing loaded. Gnaphaliian bicolor is so imperfectly described that 

 even the section to which it belongs can only be conjectured from 

 the remark that it can readily be distinguished from G. leiicocephaluni. 

 It is probably only a rather broader-leaved form of that species which 

 belongs to the division ' ' leaves obviously adriate-decurrent, the upper 

 face at least becoming naked and green in age, and with the stem 

 glandular-pubescent or glandular viscid; herbage strongly balsamic- 

 scented; root lignescent-perennial." 



Apparently the best species, and certainly the best described is 

 Collinsia Franciscana; but the description would have been much 



