VOL. IV.] Writings of Edzuard L. Greene. '^'j 



Sciences shows that the plant is only slightly more fleshy than 

 in typical nanus, which may perhaps be accounted for by its 

 vicinity to the coast, that the keel is ciliate and that the upper 

 half of the banner is white, becoming rose-purple in age. 



The author's motive for making and reiterating statements of 

 this kind which may be so readily disproved is a psychical 

 problem past finding out. 



The forms of L. microcarpus Sims approach L. brevicaulis 

 Wats, very closely and Mr. Greene has not helped matters by 

 creating L. 7nalacophyllus between them. 



The perennial Lupines of Mr. Greene are in even worse case. 

 The trouble with them is that they are nearly all intermediates 

 in groups of species already too nearly related, and extensive 

 revisions with consultations of distant types are necessary to 

 determine their true names. 



Amorpha hispidula Greene is A. Calif ornica Nutt. "The 

 prickle-like glands interspersed among the depressed and sessile" 

 are very common in glandular Leguminosse. When, as nearly 

 always happens in age, the upper part of the gland breaks away 

 the remaining basal portion is the " depressed and sessile " one. 



Hosackia Veatchii Greene, Syrmatium deyidroideum Greene 

 and Sytmatium patens Greene, are forms ol Hosackia glabra. 



Hosackia nivea Wats, is a synonym of H. argyi-cea Greene, 

 but this did not prevent Mr. Greene from making a subsequent 

 Syrmatium niveuni. This last, however, as well as 6*. orjiith- 

 opus Greene is too near H. argophylla Gray. 



Hosackia procuvibens Or^^riQ is apparently H. sericea Benth. 



Hosackia Guadalupensis Greene and probably H. occulta'^^ 

 Greene, described from seedling specimens without flowers or 

 fruit, belong to H. grandiflora Benth. 



Hosackia macratitha Greene and Lotus leucophcBus Greene are 

 both Hosackia grandiflora var. anthylloides Gray. Mr. Greene 

 in the original description of H. macrantha discourses concerning 

 the subulate glands — he calls them " foliaceous." They are 

 alike in all the forms of H. grandiflora and very nearly so in all 



* Bull. Cal. Acad, ii, 394. Mr. Greene in his enumeration of the 

 species in Pitt, ii, 133-150, omits this name, although in the original descrip- 

 tion it is characterized as " this unquestionably new species." 



