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later got out Flora Franciscana and Pittonia, a series of publications, fol- 
lowed by Leaflets, and other issues. He got Jepson to start Erythea, a 
Calif. Journal which held on for some years till it finally died from lack 
of support. Then Jepson started Madrona, a similar publication, which 
had a precarious life. Greene went insane before he died. Gray finally 
died of old age. His work was continued by Watson, his chief aide, and 
by B. L. Robinson, his successor at Harvard. 
Very soon after Gray’s death, N. L. Britton of Columbia began try- 
ing to dominate American botany. He enlisted the services of J. N. Rose 
of the National Herbarium, and between them they got out a revision ot 
the Crassulaceae and Cactaceae at Britton’s expense. Not long afterward 
Rose died. 
Britton had started the New York Botanical Garden, from which he 
published Memoirs at various times, and at last began the publication of 
a flora of North America, enlisting the efforts of P. A. Rydberg, Curator 
of the herbarium, until Rydberg’s death. Britton has certain peculiar 
ideas about species and genera that are not favored in America, and he 
has not ceased to try to throw discredit on the work of Harvard and ot 
others who oppose him. ; 
(This article was obviously left unfinished. M. J. B.) 
NEW SPECIES 
Nissoloides cylindrica (3784) N. Gen and N. Sp. No. 27223. Guad- 
alajara, Mex. Nov. 27, 1930. In moist fields, creeping and rooting, with 
nodes. Stipules green, rigid, nerved, acerose, 2-4 mm. tong. 
1-2 in. long, of three leaflets which are elliptical, 1-1.5 cm. long, 
venose, rounded at both 
a rachis about as long as the leaflet, 
from the pair, darker above and veiny. F 
cemes six inches long, and in fruit separate 
ed by triangular bracts 1-2 mm. long. Pe 
small. Fruit filiform, 1-2 in. long, e six joints 
little constricted at the joints, very sig tte 
ally striate and very shortly crisp-hairy; each joint about 4 gh i 
1 mm. thick, with rather prominent but not winged sutures, = e; ° 
wing on the terminal one but it is acuminate, shortly stipitate. Tlowe 
absent. 
Filix Adanson Fam. This 
to it by Adanson, must stand on 
i i wo! 
he cies were given with it. This 
etwas he Senate Athyrium filix-foemina. This then becomes 
