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CONTRIBUTIONS TO^ WESTERN BOTANY NO. 15 



losa var. monticola, Sphaeralcea eremicola. Thelypodium lasiophyllum. 

 I never have been able to understand how Greene buncoed the botanical 

 world into placing Sis)TObrium reflexum in Thelypodium. This is Thely- 

 podium lasiophyllum. It is a Sisymbrium in every particular except 



ymbr 



typ 



Th elypod 



helypodium ovali folium Rydberg has 

 Greene, with his usual bluff, in Torr. 



Bull. 13, tried to make out that this was a t}-pical Thelypodium, knovrn 

 as such to every acute botanist, :wbich was the usual bunk he got off to 

 strengthen^ a weak position, but why he made this bluff stick, even on 

 Harvard, is a mvsterv.. 



On page 1008 Jepson makes an egregious blunder in merging Glj-p- 

 top:eura setulcsa wi^i G. marginata. They are conspicuouslv different. 



J-,oson's tendency to follow the aberrations of Rose & Coulter in the 

 Umbelli ferae is marked, while he goes them one better in several cases in 





_ rec'icn of new genera such as Oreonana which I think is better placed 

 in \elaea. He keeps up the untenable Lomatium Raf. instead of Co^s- 



w ]'ia. He do 



Cymopt 



He follows the vagaries 



ot ^-c-ne m Gilia splittmg. 1 don't like his handling of Dodecatheon 

 He does not seenrto know the habitat of Parishella, which is the dry 

 he is. where water collects on the deserts, but not alkaline places It is 

 freqvrnt alon^ with Icpidium flavum, on the road to Randsbur- south of 

 the rcTl cad from Adelanto north. 



Tricardia Watsoni'he gives as "hill slopes and canons," which doe<= 

 rot mean ajiythiag. It is always found growing under tlie protection of 

 brusn' a3 though eaten off elsewhere by stock, and in gravelly or sandv 



\. r^;^''^'''. °' ^^-^' ^f '^'^'^^^ i^ ^^y Peaces. Its roots resemble 



Mer 



On 



drj-mg it always turns black, including the lurid flowers, which are" whit- 

 li- 'o'v qnd nurple °df;ed. 



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the current- opinion about the insular 



f -n of Lahfornia, which has arisen from fantastic theories of amateur 

 r - n- t. In recent years there has been a careful study hydro-ranhic 



pcrumulafing: 



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from these studies 





T . ,, , , P^'^t rather unmistakably toward 



nind, water, and ani- 



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t-in-n^'-ta^ion, 

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e prrsent llora is base 



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a slow proce 



>,_ a ^.uw j^race.s, and that the endennc_scecies peculia r 

 .!ch arefcw) arejhejwd^^ I have 



m?de several trips to the islandsTo s-curc dl 



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