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to Illinois, "Wisconsin, and Winnipeg ; also in Tennessee near Nashville, 

 and perhaps in the mountains of North Carolina ; but specimen in fruit 

 only. Introduced into cultivation many years ago at the Botanic Gar- 

 den, Cambridge, from plants sent by Mr. Sullivant, thence widely dis- 

 tributed. In Flora of North America, &c., taken to be a variety of 

 Lonicera Jlava, Sims. But that is a species of the Southern States 

 only, still preserved in cultivation, with fragrant flowers ; bright orange- 

 yellow corolla, the tube slender, longer than the limb, not at all gib- 

 bous. Elliott gives a good account of it, and of its mention by Drayton, 

 '' View of S. Carolina, published in 1802, p. G4," as growing on Paris 

 Mountain, Greenville, where it was afterward collected by Fraser 

 and brought into cultivation. The " exposed rocky summit of Paris 

 Mountain" is in Laurens Co., S. Carolina, where the jilant should 

 be sought anew. L. Sullivantli ranks between L. Jiava and L. glau- 

 ca, Hill (L. parvijlora. Lam ) ; and from the latter species the var. 

 Douglasii^ Torr. & Gray, may be erased. For Lindley's Caprifo- 

 lium Doucjlas'd is plainly L. hirsuta, Eaton ; and many of the speci- 

 mens originally referred to that variety belong to the latter species : 

 others are merely L. glauca with dull purple flowers. 



Riihiacece. 



Machaonia fasciculata. Ramis calyceque puberuHs, cajt. fere 

 glabra; foliis lineari-spathulatis eveniis in axillis fasciculatis subsessili- 

 bus parum semipollicaribus ; floribus 4-meris ; calycis lobis lato-ovalibus 

 merabranaceis tubo dimidio brevioribus ; corolla subrotata majuscula. 

 — Mexico, Coulter, no. 1167. 



Oldicnlandia. Greenei. Glabra, parvula ; caulc paniculato-ramoso 

 6 radice annua exili ; foliis spathulato-linearibus obtusis basi attenu- 

 atis ; floribus in dichotomiis et secus ramos breves nudos cymas sessili- 

 bus ; corollas albida; lin. 1-2 longaj subinfundibuliformis tubo calycis 

 lobos parum superante; capsula quadrangulato-hemispha^rico vel parum 

 turbinato calycis dentibus subulatis paullo longiore ; seminibus angu- 

 latis fere lasvibus. — Piuos Altos Mountains of New Mexico, ii'. L. 

 Greene (149), 1880. S. Arizona, in Ramsey's Canon, 1882, Leinmon. 



CuusEA, Cham. As Mitracarpus* is characterized by the circum- 

 scissile dehiscence of the fruit, the upper part with the persistent calyx- 

 lobes falling oif, so are Rlchardia * and Crusea by the falling oif entire 



* If we are constrained by tlie laws of nomenclature to go back to the Linn^an 

 name Rlchnrdia, adopted from Houston, for a genus intended to commemorate 

 a Dr. Richardson of those days, notwithstanding the faulty and misleading form, 

 we may more cordially restore the original Mitracarpus for the genus which 



