36 ERYTHEA. 



liim for determination a Calamagrostis. I never submitted 

 to liim for determination any grass or grasses at any time in 

 my life. On the contrary my contract with the Department 

 of Agriculture expressly states that I shall be allowed to 

 determine and describe all new species of the collection and 

 that they shall be published as mine. In the preliminary 

 examination of the grasses 1 had the friendly aid of Mr. L. 

 H. Dewey. Among the plants which we could not determine^ 

 was a Calamagrostis which we both thought was new and 

 which I had collected several times before, I took my 

 specimens to the herbarium of grasses^but found nothing to 

 match my material. Mr, Kearney asked me to leave the 

 Calamagrostis for a short time, which I did, taking it away 

 after a few days. Nothing was ever said about naming it by 

 either of us^ but it is now evident^ that Mr, Kearney intended 

 to repeat the offense against me^ practised once before by 

 another, and publish it without my knowledge. It is furth.-r 

 evident that he has made a strenuous effort to find my 

 duplicate material and describe it^ but has failed. Mr. 

 Kearney admits^ that I did not leave the specimens with him 

 to name, bat attempts to shov^ that I gave him the impression^ 

 I would do so at some future time, which is also untrue. Mr, 

 Kearney is also in error as to the relationship of the plant. 

 It is surprising/ how well he knows its true place, after saying, 

 :. that he has been unable to find any specimens for study. 

 ,/ I was not awar^ that Pon fesiucoides was preoccupied. 



My Poa fesiucoides^ may therefore bear the name of Poa 

 Kaibeiisis. 



As to his gratuitous reference to Ehjmus salinns, Mr. F. L. 

 Scribner is reponsible for suggesting its relationship to 

 Hystrix, stating that he thought^ it was a Hystrix. I 

 differed from him however and still believe^ that it is 

 an Elymus, other species of which genus have been 

 alternately referred to Agropyrum and Elymus. 



The Department of Agriculture should be the last to 

 charge me with discourtesy. In my second Californian 

 collection I discovered a grass^ which I sent to Dr. Vasey 



ijoiies, Pmc. Calif. Acad. 2 Ser. v. 722. 



