%6 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
The stimulus of being united toa man with the commanding 
intelleet of Brandegee was just the necessary tonic his wife needed 
and she began systematic research to settle the status of all the 
Calfornian plants. No one seems to know her motive behind it all 
whether it was just the satisfaction of settling problems, like her 
husband, but we all hoped she would publish a flora of California. 
Neither she nor er husband were ecological botanists, nor 
have I found any other systematic Californian botanist who knows 
subjec y just tag along 
was 
the only one to attempt to be original, and he confused drainage 
areas and ecology. Neither Brandegee nor his wife ever tried to 
get the entire flora of any region. Such a thing as combing a re- 
gion for everything in it never seems to have occurred to them. 
This is why I found so many species of plants in Lower Cali- 
fornia that Brandegee missed. No doubt he saw them as I did, 
but his attention was focussed differently, 
t was not long after their marriage when the Brandegees be- 
gan ‘‘Zoe‘, the only highclass magazine on the Pacific Coast. It 
critical work was shown by her masterly handling of Greene’s pro- 
posed new species and genera. It was a coldblooded presentation 
of the facts, without bias, and colorless so that no one wou ver 
suppose that it was a woman that wrote it. There was no reply 
possible, and all Greene could do was to call her names privately, 
which he proceeded to do, Greene’s position was that. since he 
was an ordained minister, any attack on his acts was a sin against 
God, and the act was therefore devilish. Donbtlesss this was the 
vause of his hatred for those whom he could not use, I have 
found this attitude the prevailing one among ministers, though 
generally camouflaged by specious verbiage. 
Mrs. Brandegee was specially interested in the genera messed 
over by Greene because she had worked on them with him before 
the split. These, among others, were Gilia, Eritrichium, and 
condition of her work when she died for her memory was so good 
that little was put down in writing, and when the hand of death 
