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Greene's remarks in Pitt, ii, 24 where he renames it T. hes- 

 periuni under which name it occurs in his local floras. 



Brasejiia p2irpiii'ea Michx. under Hydropcltis, 1803, is taken 

 up in the place of Brasenia peltata Pursh, 1814: Brasenia was 

 characterized by Schreber in Gen. PI. ed. viii, 1789, and to the 

 single species the name Schrebei'i was applied by Gmelin in 

 Systema Naturae, ed. iii, 853, 1791. 



Argemone platyceras collected on the desert is of course the 

 form of that species collected by the writer at one of the railway 

 stations between Amboy and the Needles, and described by Mr. 

 Greene as A. coi'ymbosa. 



Cleoviella brevipes grows abundantly'about Newberry Station, 

 where it was collected in 1884- 



homeris arborea globosa Cov. is in the herbarium of the Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences in every gradation between it and 

 the typical form. Specimens collected by the writer between 

 Caliente and Keene Station with very large globose pods have 

 no groove in the seed. Specimens with long narrow pods from 

 Calamajuet, Ivower California have a deep groove. The same 

 form from San Diego has no groove. All the forms grow 

 together on the slopes of Tehachapi. 



MalvcEopsis is accepted by the author as the older name of 

 Malvastrum. Mr. E- G. Baker, however, in the course of his 

 enumeration of the Malvaceae, says that the type of Malvaeopsis 

 was a Sphaeralcea, wrongly identified by Otto Kuntze as a spe- 

 cies of Malvastrum. 



Fremontia is changed to ^"^ Fremontodendron'' on account of 

 the previous Fremontia a synonym of Sarcobatus. 



Purshia glandiilosa is kept up under Kunzia. In the 

 opinion of the writer it is a not very distinct variety. 



Mentzelia reflexa Coville w^as collected by the writer in the 

 vicinity of Bagdad, on the Mojave Desert, in 1S84. 



Aplopapptis interior Q.o\n\\^ is evidently the form of .4. lineari- 

 folizis which prevails at a distance from the Coast. A good 

 .series of the forms approaching it would probably have modified 

 the author's views. 



Aster mohavensis Coville, " It cannot, however, retain its 

 original specific name, since Michaux described an Aster torti- 

 folius which is now referred to Sericocarpus tortifoliics.'' 



