ROBINSON AND GREENMAN. — GENUS VERBESINA. 565 



V. MEGAPOTAMiCA, Spreng. Syst. iii. 578; DC. Prodr. v. G18, of the 

 Prov. Rio Grande, Brazil, but unmentioued iu the Flora Brasiliensis, is 

 not recognized. 



y. POPULiFOLiA, Hill, Ilort. Kew. 31, poorly known and probably, 

 like the other Old World species, not really of this genus. 



V. PROSTRATA, Ilook. & Am. Bot. Beech. 195, is a prostrate and 

 creeping Chinese plant with somewhat triangular achenes. 

 - V. SCANDENS, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 62, & Fl. Ind. iii. 441, is an E. 

 Indian plant unrecognized by recent writers. 



V. SCAPOSA, Jones, Zoe, ii. 248, with scapose chiefly 1 -headed pe- 

 duncles and large radical leaves arising from a tuberous root, is a very 

 doubtful member of the genus, not seen by the writers. 



V. TRiPLiNERViA, Vis. Nuov. Sag. Accad. Padova, v. 2G4, Walp. 

 Rep. ii. 621, said to be Mexican, is unrecognizable from its insufficient 

 characterization . 



V. TEiRADiATA, Veil. Fl. Flum. viii. t. 115, is altogether doubtful. 



Transferred Species. 



V. alternikolia, Britton iu Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club, xx, 485, is 

 Actinomeris squarrosa, Nutt. 



V. ANCiSTROPHORA, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 14 (1883), being 

 Ancistrophora Wrightii, Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. ser. 2, vi. 457 (1859), 

 is V. Wrightii, Griseb. Cat. PL Cub. 155 (1866), which should not be 

 displaced by V. Wrightii, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 12 (1883). 



V. Bridgesii, Rusby, Mem. Torr. Club, iv. 212, is V. boliviana, 

 Klatt. 



V. CTMOSA, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxi. 390, is V. 2>'^uciJiora, 

 Hemsl. 



V. HASTATA, Kellogg cx Curran, Bull. Calif. Acad. i. 140 (1885), is 

 V. venosa, Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, ix. 110 (1882). 



V. HoOKERi, Klatt, Leopoldina, xx. 92, being F. helianthoides, 

 H. & A. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii. 316, not DC, is V. Arnottii, Baker iu 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 3, 215. 



V. LiNiFOLiA, L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, ii. 1226, founded on t. 149, f. 3 

 of Sloane's Hist. Jam., is Pedis linifolia, L., which rests on the same 

 plate. 



V. OAXACANA, Klatt, I.e. xxiii. 144, not DC, is V. olivacea, Klatt. 



V. OVATA, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 13, is V. pterocaiila [Moc. 

 & Sess.] DC. 



