11. NEW, RECLASSIFIED, OR OTHERWISE NOTEWORTHY 

 SPERMATOPHYTES. 



By B. L. Robinson. 



Cleome aculeata L. Syst, ed. 12, iii. 232 (1768). To the synonymy 

 of this species should be added C. sinaloensis Brandegee, Zoe, v. 198 

 (1905). Authentic material of the latter, now in the Gray Herbarium, 

 appears to agree in all features with South American specimens of C. 

 aculeata L. The species has also been found elsewhere in Mexico, in 

 Guatemala (Beam, no. 349), and in Honduras {Thieme, no. 5135 of 

 J. D. Smith's distrib.). It thus seems to be an annual weed of rather 

 wide distribution in tropical and subtropical America. The species 

 was originally described by Linnaeus from American material and has 

 been generally regarded as exclusively of this continent, but it is diffi- 

 cult to find a single character on which to separate from it the West 

 African C. ciliata Schum. & Thonn. Besk. Guin. PI. ii. 68 (1828) 

 and C. guineensis Hook. f. in Hook. Nig. Fl. 218 (1849). 



C. Fischeri, nom. nov. C. serrulata Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xiv. 

 293 (1892), not Pursh, Fl. Bor. Am. ii. 441 (1814). Pursh's homonym, 

 rejected by Dr. Gray and by many other botanists owing to its in- 

 appropriate and undescriptive character, is now being re-established 

 according to the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature. 

 Consequently the later homonym of Pax must be renamed. 



The next three new combinations, found necessary during recent 

 work of Mr. George Safford Torrey, temporary assistant at the Gray 

 Herbarium, are here published at Mr. Torrey's request. 



HosACKiA AMERICANA (Nutt.) Piper, var. glabra (Nutt.) G. S. 

 Torrey, comb. nov. H. elata, j3. glabra Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. 

 Am. i. 327 (1838). 



PiRiQUETA CAROLiNiANA (Walt.) Urb., var. viridis (Small) G. S. 

 Torrey, comb. nov. P. viridis Small, Fl. S. E. U. S. 794, 1335 (1903). 

 Distinguished from varieties of the variable P. caroliniana merely by 

 the degree of pubescence, and possessing no distinctive habitat or 

 geographical range, this form seems hardly worthy of specific rank. 



Lyonia fruticosa (MicLx.) G. S. Torrey, comb. nov. Andromeda 

 ferruginea /3. fruticosa Michx. Fl. Am. Bor. i. 252 (1803). A. ferruginea 

 Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i. 292 (1814), not A. ferruginea Walt. Fl. Car. 



