REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1907. 



115 



Vaugiiax. T. Wavi.ani). Kcports of 

 tho sciciitilic results (iT tlu- «'xp<Mli- 

 tion to the castorn tropical Pacilic 

 ill cli.irjie of Aloxaiulor Ajiassiz, by 

 the I'. S. Fisli ('oniinissioii stcainor 

 Albatross froin Ortolicr. I'.idl, lo 

 Marcii, 1!i(ir.. Lieut. ( '(uninauder I,. 

 M. Garrett, U. S. Navy, coiiimand- 

 iiif;. VI. INfadreporaria. 



Hull. Mils. Coini). ZiioL. L, No. 



3, All?:.. I'.Xm;. 1)1). (;i-72, pis. 



i-x. 

 Of the 10 species found, 8 are de- 

 scribed as new. Tlie localities rep- 

 resented are Tabosuilla Island, Bay 

 of I'anjima ; off tlio (Jalapa^os Is- 

 lands ; deep water off Callao and tlie 

 Galapagos ; Easter Island, and Manga 

 Reva. 



Some Madreporariaii corals 



from French Somaliland, East Africa, 

 collected by Dr. Charles Gravier. 



Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mux., xxxii. No. 



1526, Apr. 18, 1907, pp. 240- 



266, pis. xvii-xxviii. 



Thirty-two species are enumerated, 



of which 4 are new. They comprise 



the Astreans, Fungids, Astreopores, 



and Goniopores. The types of new 



forms are in the Paris Museum, but 



paratypes or fragments of types are 



in the U. S. National Museum 



BOTANY. 



Greene, Edward Lee. New western 

 plants. 



Leaflets, i, Sept. 8. 1906, p. 221. 



Senecio orthophiillus from Arizona, 



8. monoensis from California, 8. lle- 



hergii from Idaho, and Erigeron teph- 



rodes from California. 



A new genus of Rutacete. 



Leaflets, i, Sept. 8, 1906, p. 222. 

 Genus TararaUa, its type otherwise 

 known as Ptelea aptera. These spe- 

 cies are all endemic in Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 



The genus Leiostemou Raf. 



Leaflets, i, Sept. 8, 1906. p. 22.S. 



Genus long ago founded by Rafi- 



nesque on Pentstemon ambiguus, and 



wrongly suppressed by others. Two 



species are recognized. 



The genus Batanthes Raf. 



Leaflets, i, Sept. 8, 1906, p. 224. 



Genus of Polemoniaceoe reduced by 

 others to CHlia. Ten species are 

 western. 



(JuKKNE. ICnwARD I.,EE. Four streptan- 

 tlioid genera. 



Leaflets, I, S('pt...s, lOdC, PI). 22.')- 

 229. 

 Four now cruciferous genera, Disac- 

 canthus of Texas and Arizona, widi .5 

 species, 3 new ; Cortirra of the Itocl^y 

 Mountains and westward, with 7 

 species, 2 of them new; (liiiUeniu of 

 Nevada and California, with 7 species, 

 none new. Tiirniies lasUipluiUn Ilooli. 

 and Arn. the type; Ai/iaiillius of 

 southern Caliroi-uia, 2 species, both 

 new. 



Certain rosaceous genera. 



Leaflets, i, Sept. 24, 1906, pp. 

 237-24.'5. 

 Seven new genera, CaUionia, based 

 on Potentilla caiiandrnsi.s \j. ; lUiii- 

 daea, with Ruhiis idwus L. for its 

 type ; Melanobatus, its type liuhus 

 occidentalis L. ; Parmena, its type Ru- 

 biis spectiibiUs I'ursh ; Caidiubutus, 

 with Riibiis niiyilis Dougl. for typo (this 

 is the only species) ; I'si/chnjbatia, 

 founded on Rubus pedata Smith ; 

 Comerobatia, founded on Ruhus hisio- 

 coeca Gray. 



Some oriental Rubus allies. 



Leaflets, i, Oct., 1906, p. 246. 



On species of Parmena and Bossekia 

 in Japan; also Calyctenium, a new 

 genus based on Rubus pcctineUum, 

 Maxim. 



A new Bland violet. 



Leaflets, i, Oct. 17, 1906, p. 247. 

 Viola mmuscula, of northern New 

 York. 



A study of Rhus glabra. 



Proc. Wash. Acad. Sei., viii, Dec. 

 18, 1906, pp. 167-196. 



A history of geranium, Rlius glabra, 

 with restorations of various neglected 

 segregates, and diagnoses of a number 

 of new species of that alliance. 



Painter, Joseph II. (See under Jo- 

 seph N. Rose.) 



Rose, Joseph N. Terebinthus macdou- 

 galii, a new shrub from Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 



Torreya, vi. No. 8, Aug., 1906, pp. 

 169-171, fig. 5. 

 Contains description of one new 

 plant. 



Additional notes on Mexican 



plants of the genus Ribes. 



8mithsonian Misc. Colls., L, May 

 1, 1907, p. 32. 

 Contains descriptions of Ribes ma- 

 drense Coville and Rose. 



