CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 130 
Argemone purpurea Rose is another of Rose’s foolish species 
for anyone coilecting along the Uvalde-Eagle Pass road pusses 
pust acres of hispida and then comes to purpled or tinged 
torms and then to all-colored ones and soon out of them again in- 
to the normal ones, some are almost black, then a few roda away 
are lighter-colored forms, one is led to think it a good species be- 
cause the genus has none but yellow variants elsewhere. There is 
no other character but floral color to the species proposed by Roe 
and sv it falls. This surprized me more to find it than I was 
tu get white flowered Eschscholtzias at Cochise Ariz. growing 
wild, for | had seen white and pink ones in cultivation, 
Defending Ones Self. 
In writing on pages 3-5 Cont 17 I was writing of a historical 
fact us » matter of news, not knowing that it had become publicly 
distorted by Jepson to feed a grudge,at being exposed as an igno- 
rainua. It was not written as an apology and no attempt was 
iuade to solten down the event for I never felt any regret at my 
port in it, and I would do the same thing now. A man who will 
net figut for his rights isa fool. In my younger days I used to 
belteve implicitly iu the hairbrained doctrine of nonresistence to 
evil and other fool teachings of the Christian church such as di- 
bring in a verdict according to the law and the evidence. My re- 
ply was “*No”’, en asked my reason for it I replied that I 
would swear to see that justice was done but I would not bind my- 
self in advanee to observe any fool law that might be in the stat- 
‘tes, and that the wrong side to s case usually presents perjured 
idence. I was excused from service. 
Streptanthus carinatus Wright and 8. Arizonicus Watson cannot 
both be kept upand it is unlikely that plutycarpus is separate, 
The degree of saccation at the base of flowers is variable. The 
petal blades are oblanceolate and conspicuously purple-veined, 
and with rather wide and hyaline margins as far as base of claws. 
The move robust specimens have the lower leaves conspicuously 
