8 COXTRIBUTIOXS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. 15 



' Jepson in the Gactaceae has the aid of Parish, the most experienced 

 man in the Southern Califo-rnia flora, and his treatment of the family 

 leaves little V to -be^ desired. I notice the omission of Mamillaria phello- 

 sperma from the desert flora, M, Grahami seeming to replace it, but this I 



very much doubt. 



On pages 408 and 409 Jepson makes the new combination Cleomella 



obtusifolia var. pubescens, ignoring the fact that Nelson 20 years ago 

 made the same combination in BioL Soc. Wash. 18 172 1905. Jepson 

 also states that his name is the same as C. pubescens Nutt. but so far I 

 can find. Nutta:ll never published a C. .pubescens. 



On page 450 Jepson creates the genus Congdonia whose type species 

 is C. pinetora, which should be pinetorum. Jepson does not seem to know 

 that pinetumis the latin name for wood, pine woods, and that the geni- 

 tive pinetorum means *'of pine woods,"' there being no such adjective as 

 pinetora. 



Oh the same page he gives Sedella pumilum instead of pumila. 



Britton & Rose in Crassulacae page 67 state that Sedum Douglasii 

 was published in Fl. Bor. Am. by Hooker in 1832. My information is 

 that pp. 145 to the end came out in 1834. 



Chaetocalyx Wheeleri Gray. For some unexplained reason Jepson 

 frequently omits species from the California flora, and this is one. On 

 general grounds it should have been in his manual because it was gath- 

 ered near Klamath Lake* I also got it at Benton station, California, 

 above Bishop, along the roadside. 



By way of explanation of the fragmentary character "of the comments 

 on Jepson's Flora I will say that they were made at various times in the 

 last five years as I came upon the defects m. studpng certain families, 

 arKi .there is some .duplication thereby^.. 



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