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Psoralea hypogea Nutt, is described as having linear leaflets, 
but they vary to oblanceolate. 
Astragalus Brazoensis Buckley was one of my pleasant sur- 
prises in my Texan botanizing, forit grew abundantly from Eagle 
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Eriogonum trichopes Torrey. Gray was the one who altered 
this to trichopodum because it was a hybril name. ITad he been 
half as familiar with lingaistics as he assumed he would have seen 
that the Romans were chronic violators of this rule themselves and 
did not lay much stress on it. Had Torrey called it trichopus 
there could have been little to citicize. : he il 
In a recent trip to Julian Cal,, an old station on the historic 
trail of the padres, and the one followed by Bigelow in the ane 
can Boundary survey when Artragalus oocarpus was fiirst flea 
and later on figured as crotalarioide by Torrey, I found this rire 
Pyrola L. is messpelled Pirola by Jepson Man: p, 638 and by 
Torre and Harms Siphonegamia, but other authors give ; ¢ in 
the Species Plantarum. Bailey gives it right, but gives the deri- 
vation as a diminu tive of Sees Sieg bs 
for vari kinds of grain because 0 : 
pur, sail red. it is mote likely that the name was used - 
cause of the color of the flowers Mea any omnes to peare. 
Bauhin first used the name which Linnzus 4 “ae : 
Crossosoma Bigelovii Watson. In his type oon taee abet 
son says that the embryonic character disagrees wit \ a a “aoh 
but in the field a person is struck by the similarity of the ge na 
though Peonia is an herb. I was glad to see that someone 
courage to create the Crossomataces. 
