506 PROCF-EPINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACAnEMY. 



folii:? jwrvis angusto lanotx^latis or oapitulis miuorihu? bro\"ipodiu\cii- 

 latis et rtorilnis |x\uoiorilnis satis ditVort. 



,Tai ME„\ TEMiFOUA (Si^h. Bip.^t Klatt. L<\^poldiua. xxiii. 14l> 0^^~\ 

 p. li ot reprint, ycurohuua Uuuifolia Soh. Bip. aec. to Klatt, 1. o. 

 This species, imperfectJy characterizeii by Dr. Klatt, is shown hy his 

 fragmenti; of t\"pe material to have resteii npon a very immature 

 specimen of some phmt with pappus of capillary bristles and with the 

 youni: corollas v^tiU closeii^ purplish-tontentose. Though from the 

 fragments at hand it is impressible to place the speines in any genus, 

 it may be said with perfect dettniteness that the plaitt, witJi it;> fine 

 capillary pvippus. is not a Jaumea. Its habit is rather that of a Kiqui- 

 iorium thiui of a .Ve uro/ae/ja, but the florets are too immature to 

 furnish distinctive generic or e\en tribal characters. The type 

 number {^Litbrnanu, no. 202 from Chiniuitia, ^lexico^i is doubtless in 

 other herbaria and may well be in some of them representeii in suffi- 

 ciently mature condition to pennit ntore precise identification. In- 

 formation on this subject would be welcometi. 



OxYPAPPUS SCABER Benth. Bot. Sulph. US, t. 42 (1S44). There 

 seems to be no doubt that Dr. Gray w as entirely right in reilucing to 

 the synonymy of this species Pcntachotia gracilis Benth. in Hook. Ic. 

 xii. 1. 1. 1101 (,1S72\ though tJie latter is maintained as a valid species 

 by Hix^ker f. &: Jackson in the Index Kewensis. 



Schkuhria schkuhrioides i^Link Sc Otto\ comb. nov. Achpro- 

 piippuii i>vhKuhrioiat\^ Link & Otto. Ic. PI. Rar. 59, t. 30 (,1S2S\ 

 Schkuhria setucioides Xees, Del. Sem. Hort. Bonn. 1S31; Hemsl. 

 Biol. Cent.-Am. Bot. ii. 212 ^ISSlX 



Actinea Palmeri ^,Gray\ comb. nov. ActineUa Pahneri Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 31 (1SS3). Plateihma Pahneri (Gray) Cockerell, 

 Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxxi. 4(52 (1904). 



ACT1XE.V scAPOSA (DC.) Ktzc., var. linearis (.Xutt.\ comb. nov. 

 ActineUa scaposa, /3 linearis Xutt. Trans. Am. Phil. See. vii. 379 

 (1S41). Tetramuris linearis (Xutt.) Greene, Pittonia. iii. 267 (1S9S). 



Dyssodia Cav. The various efforts which have been made to 

 separate Hymenaiherum Cass, from Dyssixlia Cav. have proveil so 

 uns;uisfactory that it seems best to follow Hoffmann in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Xat. Pflanzenf. iv. Ab. 5, 205 (1S90\ and regard the distinc- 

 tions as being at best of subgeneric or sectional value. In accordance 

 with this view, however, it is necessary to transfer several species, as 

 follows : 



Dyssodia anomala Lanby & l\ose\ comb. nov. Ilumena- 

 thrrum anomalum Canbv & Rose, Contrib. U. S. Xat. Herb. i. 105, 



