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land. Mr. Jared found it growing abundantly near the old wharf 

 at Point Sal. 



Calaviintha mimuloides Benth. is reported, in the Botany of 

 California, from the Carmel River, Monterey County. It has 

 recently been discovered by Dr. H. E. Hasse at Acton, Cotton- 

 wood Caiion, San Bernardino Range, Los Angeles County. 



A. E. 



E. L. GREENE VERSUS ASA GRAY. 



Edward L. Greene, Professor of botany at the State University 

 of California, makes, in the August number of the Totrey Club 

 Bulletin, an entirely uncalled-for attack upon the greatest sys- 

 tematic botanist America has produced, and as that journal has a 

 rather restricted circulation on the Pacific Coast, the paper is here 

 reproduced that botanists of the West may have an opportunity 

 of judging what manner of defense Professor Greene is able to 

 make against criticism and what weapons he is capable of using. 

 Few will believe that this article would ever have appeared if 

 Gray were living. 



NEW HONORS TO OLD WEEDS. 



BY EDW. L. GREENE. 



The modern history of Californian botany was taken up by men who 

 had never seen the field of their researches, and who had no conception of 

 the number of foreign plants that had become naturalized in this part from 

 Europe a hundred years ago. Man}- of these had not made their appearance 

 in New England, and were unfamiliar to New England botanists. wSeveral 

 such plants, well-known to botanists in general for several centuries, 

 obtained new names at the hands of writers of the East, as if they had been 

 quite new to science. Dr. Britton, in the last issue of this journal, has been 

 able to identify as old, one of my own supposed new plants; and I may here 

 be allowed to indicate that botanists of note have added to synonj-my in this 

 manner, before me. Asa Gra}-, in his day, gave new names to not less than 

 five extremely common and familiar weeds of the Old World, the 

 specimens of which had come to him from this unsuspected habitat of 

 California. 



When, nearly twenty years ago, the present writer sent him Convolvulus 

 arvensis from California, his letter in answer shows that he had considered 

 this to be an exclusively Californian species, the C. Calif oniicus, of Choisy; 

 and when, a few weeks later, the real C. Californicus was transmitted, he 

 named this C. Sola'ane/la, an Old World species. But errors of this kind, of 



