CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 37 
It should be said of Synthlipsis that the flowers are white 
and that the claws of the petals are so close together as to appear 
united making the abruptly spreading blades seem like lobes of a 
gamopetalous corolla, 
iriogonum trichopes Torr. The more I see of the hairsplit- 
ting of Gray in correcting hybrid names like this the less I think 
of it. Gray was no Greek scholar as shown by his ignorance of 
the gender of words ending in ‘tomega nu‘ i reek, such as 
Cotyledon. He was asavage and unscrupulous partizan. 
Sedum barranec2 n. sp. No. 27845 Under cliffs at La 
Barranca, Guadalajara Mex., Nov. 17 1930. in wet and loose soil, 
growing in tufts from long or oblong leaf fascicles 1-2 inches long 
stem leaves many, narrowly elliptical to linear-elliptical, 1-2 inches 
long, 1 em. wide, sometimes acute, entire, sessile. Inflorescence 
a raceine-like arrangement of short and scorpioid racemes of 6 
flowers which are sessile and bracted with ovate to nearly round 
bracts 5-6 mm. long. Flowers white, but tinged with red or green 
and about 4 mm. long and wide. Petals cordate-ovate and with 
acuminate tip and equaled by the stamens which have a wide and 
triangular base and filiform filaments. Pods 2, acuminate. Stems 
simple, 
Astragalus Piersonii Munz & McBurney Bull, So. Cal. Acad. Sei. 
Vol. 31 p. 67 ff, The proposal of these new synonyms is wholly 
er 
It is unfortunate that the indefatigable botanist of Pasadena 
must have his name hitched to a synonym for he deserves better 
treatment. This plant is described as an annual,butis perennial as 
are all the forms of lentiginosus. 
Crotalaria var. Davidsonii 1. c. is the usual Imperial val. 
ley form of Preussii and is matched exactly by a specimen in the 
herbarium, 
A. insularis var. Harwoodii is apparently true trifloras DC, 
A. pachypus var. Jaegeri |. c. is said to have yellow flowers 
but there is nothing in the specimen to show it. There are no 
yellow-flowered Astragali, but many ochroleucous ones. 
They also propose a new variety of A. Douglasii. I have been 
convinced that none of the proposed varieties are good. _ 
Mrs. McBurney has had no field experience enough to justify an 
opinion of the species but for years she has had access tomy great 
collection and use of my monograph enough to become familiar 
with the Preussii to which her proposed apecies belongs. 
Munz seems to be copying Jepson’s system of making fake 
varieties as used in his Manual, a system that he was the first to 
criticise severely. 
