o6G PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



V. PANICULATA, Heller, Cat. N. x\m. PI. 8, not Poir., is Actinome- 

 ris alba, Torr. & Gray. 



V. PERSiciFOLiA, Klatt, Leopoldina, xx. 93, not DC, is V. vlrgata, 

 Cav. 



V. PiNNATiFiDA, Gray in "Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 428 (Palmer's 

 no. 698 from Jalisco), certainly not of Cav., is probably sterile Montanoa 

 ffrandi/lora, Sch. Bip. 



V. PODOCEPHALA, Gray, PL "Wright, ii. 92, is Zex77ie7ua jJodocejjJiala, 

 Gray, Syn. Fl. i. jjt. 2, 286. 



"V. Sartorii, Sch. Bip. in Klatt, 1. c. xxiii. 143, is V. oUvacea, Klatt. 



V. SCANDENS, Klatt, Leopoldina, xxv. 106, is ace. to Klatt, Ann. 

 Natur. Hofmus. "Wien, ix. 362, Salmea Eupatoria, L. 



V. TOMENTOSA, DC. Prodr. V. 614, imperfectly described and without 

 exact locality, may be doubtfully referred to V. sublohata, Benth. 



"V. TRiDENTATA, Spreng. I.e. 577, is Asjnlia hnphthalmijlora, Griseb. 



"V. TUBEROSA, Klatt, Ann. Natur. Hofmus. "Wien, ix. 361, is Zex- 

 Tnenia aurea, Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. ii. 373 ( Wedella ? aurea, D. 

 Don, Bot. Mag. t. 3384; Verbesina aurea, DC. Prodr. v. 613). 



III. — SOME NEW SPECIES, EXTENDED RANGES, AND 

 NEWLY NOTED IDENTITIES AMONG THE MEXI- 

 CAN PHANEROGAMS. 



By J. M. Gheenmax. 



Eleocharis aciculariformis. Perennial : rhizomes dark brown, 

 creeping, rather stout, freely branched : culms 5 to 8 cm. high, tufted at 

 the nodes of the rhizome, vaginate at the base : sheaths reddish-brown 

 below, hyaline above: spikes elliptic-ovate, 4 to 6 mm. long, about 12- 

 flowered; scales ovate, obtuse, somewhat compressed, green on the back 

 with reddish-brown sides and scarious margins: setoe 3, a little over 

 1 mm. in length : achenes oblong-obovate, about 1 mm. long, rather ab- 

 ruptly narrowed at the summit, longitudinally ribbed, and transversely 

 striated : tubercle about one third as broad as the achene. — Collected by 

 C. G. Priugle in the Valley of INIexico, Federal District, 7 May, 1898, 

 no. 6818. 



