CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. IS «3 



Robinson in Syn. FL p. 253 says under one star "Cauline leaves .rather 

 broadly ovate" but he should have added "or wider". 



Silene multinervia Watson is evidently like a pediceled 

 Gallica. The seeds are the same, but ribs of calyx 15 to 2( 

 nearest to S. conoidea, but seeds quite different, and more ribs to calyx. 



form 



It seems 



looks iiice a nybnd between GaJlica and conoidea. S. concolor ':Gi!eene 

 IS S. Pringlei Wat 



S. simulans Greene is S, laciniata Cav. 



Ranunculus Austinae Greene and ellipticus are glaberrimus. 



Ranunculus distributed by Harvard as O. D. Allen's No. 97, and 

 called Suksdorfi, has sharp lobes but is otherwise good Eschs.dholtzii 

 Elmer's No. "669'' distributed as Suksdorfii is the same. Svnon)ins of 

 Eschscholtzii are eximius Greene, alpeophilus Nelson, Helleri Rydberg. 

 Saxicola Rydberg, ocreatus Greene, Utahensis Rydb. 



R. pedatifidus is vicinalis Greene. 



R. glaberrimus is calthaeflours Greene, in:\moenu;5 Greene^ and 

 Pofulago. 



R. alismaefolius is unguiculatus Greene. 

 R. adoneus is stenolchus Greene. 

 R. occidentalis is Earliae. 



In Cont. Nat. Herb. I 278 Vasey in describing Fe.stuca Jonesii re- 

 fers the type locality to southern Utah, but the type was get by me in 



City Creek Canon Salt Lake City. 

 Dendromecon Harfordii (Kellogg). 



good 



species, due to the elliptical leaves and the smaller flowers. It becomes 

 at times a shrub 10 feet high and four inches in diameter, with candela- 



brum-like branches, and is more strict than the type species. It is fre- 

 quent on Santa Cruz island among the oaks on moist slops. 



NOTES ON DRABA 



In 



usual 



going over this genus critically, the first thiae oie vothT< Is the 

 splitting done by ignorant closet botanists whose chieT 'activity 

 seem to be that of matching pennies. The genus has now been mussed 

 up by Greene, Rydberg, Wooton & Standley, Nelson, and Tide-trom, to 

 say nothing of the conservative but too florid treatment by Robinson 

 in the Synoptical Flora of North America. 



Taking the generic segregates, we find Robinson recognizing 'Greene's 

 Athysanus, and reducing his Heterodraba, a very inconsistent proceed- 

 ing for Heterodraba and Athysanus are congenreic. But Robinson does 

 not accept Erophila which stands only on the bifid petals. Jepson re- 

 duced Draba eurycarpa to Parr}^a, which is probably the right fhini^ 

 to do. Jepson also reduces my Draba t-nilateralis to Athysanus, which is 

 the proper thing to do if that genus is to be upheld, but he should have 

 recognized Heterodraba since that antedr^es Athysanus. Greene pirts^ his 

 Draba graminea in Draba but it is not a Draba e\idently. Braya granunea 

 (Greene). About the only character that seems to have anv weight 

 as separating Athysanus from Draba is the reflexe<l pedicels, The^cTiar- 



