544 MACBRIDE. 



Fl. West.-Middle Calif, ed. 1, 442 (1901). Mrs. Brandegee, Zoe, v. 

 94-95, called attention to the true relationship of this plant as long 

 ago as 1901, suggesting that it might be an introduction. More 

 recently Prof. Jepson (1. c.) redescribed it from the Alvarado salt 

 marshes. Although the label on Lemmon's specimen (the original) 

 bears the notation "Arizona," the specimen probably came, as 

 Mrs. Brandegee remarks, from California. Dr. Gray compared his 

 species to L. incrassatum Guss. which is a good Lithospermum and 

 which consequently bears only a superficial resemblance to A. glabra. 

 The Old World plant at maturity develops a similarly fistulous- 

 enlarged rhachis and callous-thickened calyx, but it has the fruit, 

 the flowers and the aspect of other members of the genus. The near- 

 est relative of A. glabra is A. stipltata Greene. Mrs. Brandegee 

 doubts if the former is anything more than "a swollen form" of the 

 latter. The swollen character is a very noticeable, but not by any 

 means, it would seem, the strongest difference. However this may 

 be, glabra is the older name and must be used regardless of the dis- 

 position one may make of A. stipltata. 



Allocarya tenuicaulis (Phil.), comb. nov. — Eritrichium tenuicaule 

 Phil. Linnaea, xxix. 18 (1857). E. uliginosum Phil. Anal. Univ. San- 

 tiago, xliii. 519 (1873). Krynitzkia trachycarpa Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 XX. 266 (1885). Allocarya diffusa Greene, Pitt. i. 14 (1887). When 

 Dr. Gray described this plant (1. c.) he referred to it two Chilian speci- 

 mens remarking that "it may be suspected to be the Lithospermum 

 muricaium of Ruiz & Pavon, and probably it may have other specific 

 names; none of them, however, can be safely adopted." Two years 

 later Dr. Greene (1. c.) transferred the Krynitzkia species belonging to 

 his new genus and maintained the name trachycarpa "as to the Cali- 

 fornian plants only," at the same time making the new combination 

 A. idiginosa (Phil.) Greene, with the notation "Krynitzkia trachycarpa 

 Gray as to the Chilian specimens doubtless." Reiche in his Flora de 

 Chile (1910) has defined the Allocaryas of that country, and has 

 definitely shown that Ruiz & Pavon's plant is not ours (a conclusion 

 reached by Dr. Greene, 1. c). He treats the North American plant, 

 however, as a synonym of the earlier E. uligiyiosum, thus following 

 the opinion of Dr. Gray, who evidently assigned the new name trachy- 

 carpa because he had at that time no means of knowing what name 

 should be rightly taken up. The Reed specimen, which he cited, 

 is probably A. sessiliflora (Poepp.) Greene, but the Harvey one 

 corroborates Reiche's treatment. Unfortunately this much named 

 plant has never been properly christened even yet. We are given the 



