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so flagrant, and misrepresentations so serious, that we are 

 obliged to distrust all that we have not the means for veri- 

 fying. Almost at the outset we are informed that the true 

 position of Staphylea is in the Zygophyllaceae, between Guiacnm 

 and Chitonia ! And this merely because any other position 

 would compel her to accept the genus of a person whom she 

 does not like. At the same time Mr. Greene is accused of rele- 

 gating the plant in question ( Viscainoa ge7iictilaia, Greene) to 

 the Euphorbiaceae, an accusation entirely without foundation, he 

 having expressed precisely the opposite opinion. Dendromecon 

 flexile, Gi^ene, is declared to be merely a luxuriant form of D. 

 rigidtcm, Benth. After examining ample specimens of both 

 species, we are inclined to regard them as being about as closely 

 related as Cormis Canadensis and C. florida. The several species 

 of Eschscholtsiay which have been separated with so much care 

 by Bentham, Watson and Greene, are here indiscriminately 

 referred back to E. Californica. Although the genus is rather a 



A 



difficult one, we are impressed by seeing specimens inscribed 

 in the handwriting of Dr. Gray with most of the names of the 



above authors. 

 Calif arnica grc 



hy that while we found E. 

 Chih, we could never find, 



during our short stay in that country, any variation from the 



type- We a 



lifi 



a mistake which, 



practiced in the collection of barks, renders many medicinal ex- 

 tracts of the latter nearly worthless. H. H. R. 



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Calandrina oppositifolia. S. Watson. (Gard. Chron., iv., 6oi, 



fig. 83.) 

 California Medicinal Plants, — Notes on. — Jas. G. Steele, (Pharm. 

 Rec, ix., 7-8.) 



Calochortns Gu?inisoni, — Undescribed Varieties of — T. D. A. 

 Cockerell. (West Am. Sci., v., 17.) 



Three new varieties are described — var. unacitlattis, var. m- 

 maculatus and var. pttrns. 



Catalpa speciosa for Timber Planting. G. W. Fincher. (Garden 



and Forest, ii., 21.) 



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