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Lessingia '''tennis'" Cov. L. ramulosa var. tenuis Gray, of 

 Bot. Cal. I. 307, and Syn, Fl. ii, i, 162 "as to the pi. of Rothrock 

 in Wheeler Rep. vi, 364- There is however an older var. tenuis, 

 described in Proc. Am. Acad, vii, 351, belonging to L. leptoclada 

 which in Syn. Fl. Supp. 447 is reduced with L. nemaclada Greene 

 to L. leptoclada var. micro cephala Gray. The printer has further 

 complicated the matter by misprinting Mr. Coville's specific 

 name, and altogether botanists adopting the Sheldonian method 

 will have a good subject. 



The specific name of Pluchea borealis is changed to sericea 

 "(Nutt.) under Poly pappus.'" The species was first published in 

 Emory's Rep. 1848, p. 147 as " Tessaria borealis DC. An 

 aromatic shrub about three feet high growing in all the deserted 

 beds of the Gila, and in the Valley of the Del Norte usually with 

 the Fremontia both of which are abundant in those regions." 

 If this had been a plant of Rafinesque's it would have probably 

 been considered quite well authenticated. It is certainly quite 

 as recognizable, being placed in its proper genus, and with a 

 definite locality, as Nuttall's later genus, sandwiched in between 

 Micropus and Psathyrotes, and entirely without generic descrip- 

 tion, though named as a new genus, described from a single 

 *' imperfect specimen, apparently male," and with the station 

 " Rocky Mountains of Upper California." 



Helianthus invemistus Greene, was collected by Mr. Brande- 

 gee at Sequoia Mills 1892, and its peculiarities noted in Zoe, July 



1893. P- 153- 



Layia is maintained instead of the recently resurrected Blepli- 

 aripappus under which Prof. Greene has renamed the species. 



Chanactis attenuata can not be kept distinct from C carphoc- 

 Ihiia, every gradation is found between them. 



Lepidospartuni striatum Cov. is L. latisquamum Wats. Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xxv. 133. — both described from the same plants col- 

 lected by Shockley. 



Adelia is taken up as an older name for Forestiera. 



Menodora spiiiescens is in Shockley 's collections from Cande- 

 laria. 



Such species as Navarretia setiloba are evidence that the 

 National Herbarium is in need of such a set of the variations 



