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Hutchinsonia hyalina Jones (See above) is a rayless form of 
I[ymenothrix Wislizeni Gray which Blake has mistakenly ees 
I. Morrissii, it is not often that one can correct two blunders at 
once but his 8 ecies cannot be maintained in the sate of rcp 
er ratic igenk is put ‘ Risen e as a var. of peninsulare, 
intergrades appear over a wide fieid. Greene was so saeioted 16 
seeing characters that had no existence, that his descriptions did 
hot puss muster with acute botanists, but in this case he was right 
‘hat the inner perianth of Allium is hyaline-msrgined is not 
known in native onions, In this case the segments have a thin 
ridge 1 mm. wide which is so fluted as to seem beaded to the eye, 
but is white and crimped, but on drying seems lacerate. The 
bulbs propagate by division and are quite small and deep seated in 
the spongy gumbo seil which bakes hard in summer. - ichlam- 
ydium, its ally is misspelled by Greene and by Jepson. Its seg- 
ments are oval to oblong and acute, not acuminate, sid without 
serration. Botanists will not soon forget Greene’s eruption with 
new names for genera and species following the advent of the Kew 
Index, as though he had just come to that subject in his botani- 
cal studies, Le was imitated by E. P. Sheldon on Astragalus 
where he made a new name for A, pictus Gray because antedated 
by a nomen nudum, Greene then switched to Dioscorides to ex- 
hibit his great Greek scholarship, using arecent translation of the 
old pharmacist‘s work. This bluff got by because Greek was not 
known to many or so poorly known, about as well as by Cope and 
O. D, Marsh, the zoological sco urges, 
ARCTOMECON CALIFORNICA. 
In his Death Valley report Coville oa Watson's, Gray’s, 
and Torrey’s blunder on the gender of Arctomecon where they 
took it to be neuter because if ended in ”on” ne pea ending, 
but omego uu is not neuter for it is the endin 
There is in Utah and Nevadaa large area ot on bass re or Ter- 
tiary clays representing ancient salt seas where alkaline clays are 
exposed which are so barren that litle Ms eg will grow on them 
and here is where Arctomecon Californica abounds in Nevada 
No one has ever suc ceeded in growing it 
