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standing confusion oi Amorplia fruticosa with A. Calif ornica in 

 the region of Arizona, New Mexico and Southern CaHfornia that 

 must have led Professor Greene to describe Nuttall's true 

 Amorpha Californica as a new species, A. hispidula." Professor 

 Greene seems to have become somewhat enraged, and in an 

 appended note bristling with remarks concerning Mr. Holzin- 

 ger's "dogmatism," "bald opinions," "entirely gratuitous 

 suppositions," etc., gives the luckless botanist who has presumed 

 to differ from him, a sound verbal spanking. Nevertheless Mr. 

 Holzinger is entirely correct as everyone at all conversant with 

 the flora of California knows, and Mr. Greene as entirelj^ wrong. 

 Indeed his descriptions oiA. Californica and A. hispidiila in Flora 

 Franciscana convict him suflSciently. In the brief description 

 there given he omits from the former, apparently intentionally, for 

 as it appears in all descriptions he can hardly have been ignorant of 

 it, Nuttall's significant phrase "petioles furnished with minute 

 glandular scales." At the risk of being accused of " dogmatism " 

 I venture to state that A. fruticosa enters Southern California 

 where it has been collected not only by Dr. Palmer, but also by 

 George W. Dunn who found it in the mountains near Julian 

 something like forty miles north of the boundary. It grows 

 also about the lower elevations of San Pedro Martir in Baja 

 California, which is perhaps its southern limit. The range of ^. 

 Californica as at present known is from the southern border of 

 Mendocino County along the Coast Range in various localities to 

 San Pedro Martir, where it has recently been found on the summit 

 plateau. In the Sierra Nevada foothills it appears to have been 

 collected only at the Alabaster Cave not far from Auburn. The 

 only habitat known for A. hispidiila is the mind of Professor 

 Greene. 



Fourth Annual Report of the Missotiri Botanical Gardeii con- 

 tains, besides the usual Reports, etc., a list of plants collected by 

 Albert S. Hitchcock in the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Grand Cay- 

 man, 132 pages, and four plates of the new species, Pavonia 

 Bahamensis Hitchcock, Anastraphia pauciflosculosa Wright, 

 Etipho7'bia Blodgettii Engelm., and Eragrostis Bahamensis Hitch- 

 cock. The remainder of the volume is occupied by " Further 

 Studies of Yuccas and their Pollination" by William Trelease. 



