CRITICAL NOTES ON* SOME SPECIES OF CEBASTIUM 329 



138. C. gracile Dufour in Ann. Gen. Sc. Phys. vii. 304 (1820) : 

 = 0. tetrandrum Curtis var. alsinoides G-iirke, PL Europasae, ii. 234 

 (Jan. 1899). Authentic specimens were sent by Dufour to De Can- 

 dolle from a rocky station on Sierra de Vernisa, near San Felipe de 

 Jativa, prov. of Valentia, Spain (cf. Prodr. i. 416, n. 19). Referred 

 by Grenier, Monogr. 43, to G. pumilum, but afterwards correctly 

 referred by Townsend to C. tetrandrum (Journ. Bot. 1877, 35). 



139. C. graminifolium Rydberg in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 1903, 

 250. — Perenne, breviter denseque viscido-villosum. Rhizoma tenue 

 ramosum. Caules 3-5 dcm., erecti, apice cymiferi, internodio summo 

 infra anthemiam elongato, 5-10 ctim. Folia 2-3 ctim. long., 3-5 mm. 

 lat., uninervia lineari-lanceolata acutata patentia. Bracteae lanceo- 

 latse vel ovato-lanceolatsa, late scarioso-marginatae. Pedicelli apice 

 curvati, fructiferi 2-4 ctim., apice reflexi. Sepala 5-6 mm., anguste 

 lanceolata acuta anguste scarioso-marginata. Petala 12-14 mm., 

 %-\ bidentato-lobata, lobis oblongis. Capsula leviter curvata nutans 

 cylindrica, sepalis § longior. 



Near C. arvense, but differs from the European plant in the more 

 villous pubescence, the more acute leaves, and the larger flowers. 



Hob. N.W. United States. — "Washington : Pullman {Elmer 

 n. 177, type in New York Botanic Garden) — Idaho : near Lewiston, 

 Upper Ferry and Clearwater Ferry. — Montana: on Old Sentinel, a 

 mountain near Missoula, at 900-1500 metres (D. T. Macdouaal, 

 1901, n. 175). Here described from Montana specimens in Herb. 

 Kew. (received 1905), — which had not come to hand when Rydberg 

 described the plant. 



(To be continued.) 



FRANCES ARABELLA ROWDEN. 

 By James Beitten, F.L.S. 



The claims of this lady to a place in our Biographical Index 

 are doubtless somewhat slight, although not more so than those of 

 others who appear therein : she was herself, however, a personage 

 of some interest, as the following account will, I hope, show. Such 

 claims as she possesses rest upon her Poetical Introduction to 

 the Study of Botany, which shows more acquaintance with the 

 subject than is usually manifested by works bearing similar titles. 

 The first edition, published in 1801, is a well-printed volume of 

 lxxi + 167 pages, to which are prefixed an "advertisement" and a list 

 of subscribers containing numerous titled names with "His Boyal 

 Highness the Prince of Wales," who took " six large copies," at then- 

 head. The idea of the book was " suggested by a friend, who 

 requested the Author to compose a few elementary lessons on Botany, 

 adapted to Abbe Gaultier's plan of instruction. She intended at 

 first to select a few passages from Dr. Darwin's elegant Poem of the 

 Botanic Garden, and arrange them according to the system of 

 Linnaeus; but finding many of the Classes not treated on in that 

 work, and the language frequently too luxuriant for the simplicity of 

 female education, she attempted the following descriptions, in which 



