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reverting to the types from which those types originally came. Just a? 

 w have in the genesis of organic chemical compounds where the am- 

 monia radical became to all intents and purposes an element like sod- 

 ium, oxygen or hydrogen, and was built uDon to form the complex, de- 

 rivaties of Carbon. There are 



vanous 



cut 



ice in the matter, particularly when made by young men with little ex- 

 perience. Ultimately the matter will be settled, but not till after ex- 



recoCTiition 



Thelj-pod 



rami 



of species or genera. He puts T. elegan.^ 

 stiema 



.puts T ovalifohum the cot>'pe of which is in my herbarium and all of 

 which I collected at Panguitch lake Utah, in Thel>T)odium because it 

 has no stigma lobes, but the specimens in my herbarium have lobes bot^a 

 transverse ^and parallel to septum, and therefore the species according to 



.1 , . j.^^jj^ .^ ^ sagittatum. There are speci- 



both transverse and parallel lobes on the 



^ ^ ^ 



form 



rium 



came plant. This shows the extent to which Payson vnW go in tryin^ 

 to establish his foolish reference of species of Thelypodium to SisVnv 

 bnum whose species S. altissimum cannot be congeneric with any of them. 



laking up T. integrifolium we find him splitting it ub into T. af- 



n.'r.k 'f .f "S i°^'T' ^I"-^.^^^ '■^"- g^^"^>Pes- We find him making 

 m^ch of the flattened pedicels to keep up rhombifolium, but he h in- 

 consistent in his reference of specimens. My fine material from Moab 

 wlach he refers to rhombifolium is tj^ical var. gracilipes with stipe 2 

 mm. long and Imear 'spikes, and has conspiaiously flattened pedicel... 



4;i rTw?'-? ^^,.^^°*^^ °^ ^he fictitious species, the distinc- 

 tions do not hold. T. affme cannot be upheld on the characters -iven 

 I see no other way than to unite the four species " 



Payson says on page 281, in quoting localities for Thelypodium 

 ]:lacnjum var subumbellatum "Hot Springs Wyoming Jones "Tne^r 



JJIT^ ^°"°'^' ^'T\ '^ P^"^^g Sisymbrium reflexum into Thelv- 



Thelypodium Coope 



oiu^.a in.o pockets as m that species by the thick seeds but the flmvpr<; 



pod 



SisjTnbrium 



The inflores- 



two 



r^T- -4 \ * "'^™cnon, supposedly specific, but I fail to see anv tbelv 

 podioid characters warranting placina the snecie. tT.^r^ tI ^ T^ 

 ance of characters is sisj-mbrloid. There Xo be ; A P?^P?^der- 

 forms on the Coast and the interior in Aeseptun^ The r!'T'' 'I ■^" 

 n^ore sis>.brioid. Both he and ^^^n^^'Ti^J^^T^^^ 



