CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 19 
Neopringlea. 
In his Shrubs and Trees of Mexico, Standley, in a footnote, 
p 706, says the following: ‘‘perhaps the best known and most in- 
dustrious of north American botanical collectors. (Pringle) It 
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he botanized at and near Guadalajara, Mexico for nine years | got 
over twenty new species therein 1930. If he had done good work 
no such thing would be possible. 
W. N. Suksdorf. 
At this writing (October 1932) there comes news of the death 
of Suksdorf, by being run over by atrain he was trying to board. 
to have discovered that Greene and Rydberg are botanically 
dead. One would expect to find more sense than that in a ficld 
botanist, but some people are hard to convince without a club. 
Suksdorf lived in the Columbia Basin most of his life, and also 
was, for a time, an assistant of Gray at Harvard. He was always a 
hopeless splitter. 
Abrams’s Floras. 
In my criticism of Abrams‘s botanical work in my Contribu- 
tions No. 15 I did not discriminate between the two floras, but 
my objections were chiefly to the second edition of the Los Ange- 
les flora. His larger work camouflaged under the title of Pacific 
