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glauco-valvula are white-pubescent and round, and become flat in ^^q. 



Jepson 



He gives Arabis perennans as 



o 



perannans; there is no such word. Then he fails to say that Prinde is 



the author and not Watson for the word, Jepson also misspell 



page 428. On page 430 Jepson puts two i-s on Arabis Lemnioni Watson 



where there is but one. If Jepson were to adopt the habit of putting two 



i-s on every personal name there might be some consistency in it, but lie 



still spells Bolanderi, Fendleri, etc., in the old way. The old rule for the 



use of this letter was simpy one of euphony, but even this was not always 



followed by the best authors. There was no real reason for usin^^ two in 



many cases like Drummondii, Lyallii, Cusickii, Howellii, Parisnii, etc., 



but I see no reason for doing else than to spell them as they were spelled 



in the first place. Numberless cases of errors of this kind^ occur in tlie 

 book. 



I like Jepson's way of using the grave accent for the long sound of 

 vowels and the acute one for the short sound. This is an improvemei-it 

 on the Synoptical Flora of Robinson. Robinson errs on page 166 of the 

 syn Fl- where he puts the accent of Lemmoni on the penult instead of 

 the antepenult. It would be much better if the circumflex accent wer- 

 used by Robinson for the long sound than to simply use the accent to 

 show on what syllable the stress was put in pronouncing. 



On page 423 Jepson capitalizes Brassica alba where he should not. 

 He decapitalizes all personal names, following fhe foolish custom of the 

 zoologist. In the main Jepson's idea of genera is sound. He seldom if 

 ever goes off into the Brittonian vagaries. 



On page 445 he misses the chief character of Draba corrugata which 

 is the exserted stamens. 



On page 446 he recognizes Greene's genus Athysanus, following Rob- 

 inson in this, and tlien puts Draba unilateralis in 'it. But my species is 

 truly a Draba. I incline to the opinion that Thysanocarpus pusillus is 

 better put in Draba than anywhere else. This leaves Thysanocarpus fre- 

 and does not hurt Draba any, for there are other Drabas that have pendent 

 pods, such as nemoralis, etc. Robinson does not at all clarify 'the situa- 

 tion by recognizing Atliysanus. 



On page 178 of the Syn, Fl. I again take issue with Robinson, wlio 

 puts the accent of Stanleya on the e instead of the first a. The y'fher- 

 is not a vowel but a consonant, if counted at all- Robinson also follows 

 the old custom of pronouncing Stellaria Jamesii by accenting the e' instead 

 of the a. The e is a silent letter in the original and the name of the 

 explorer always was pronounced Jams, the a being long. Therefore on 

 the addition of th two i-s the accent should still be on the a. This is 

 the same with the namejonesii. Jones never was pronounced Jonees. 



In his treatment of the Crassulaceae Jepson follows what to me "is the 

 foolish practise of Rose, but he strangely does not still follow 'him -in 



