14 CO>rTKrBt^TIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. IS 



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it terminated abruptly in a yellow and very tibin tube 1-2 mm. long with 

 the lobes on the end. The green part is conspicuously different from tiie 

 rest At the point of change there are a few gland-tipped hairs, 1-3 cdls 

 long. The seeds are lO-striate. The ray flowers show the same ten- 

 dency of the base of the corolla. The seeds are without any pappus, or 



Tuckerm 



with only rudimentary 



il. Soc 



the original name for Leptosyne maritima. The characters given for 

 the flowers in the notes above I find are common in both species, and 

 are generic if we adopt Tuckermannia. The floral character is not 

 found in any species of Coreopsis or Leptosyne, In addition no other 

 species of Leptosyne is perennial or shrubby if we put Coreocarpus as 



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Blake does 



epted 



too many and too diverse groups. Whether the other spe- 



in Cnrennsis is a. nue«;tion. They 



osyne are ngbtiully put 

 le floral character, which , _ _ 

 firmer in texture than the corolla proper 



cyl 



a ring of hairs and the swelled upper part or true corolla which i3 

 strons^ty S-nerved. 



Tuckermannia gigantea (Leptosyne gigantea Kellogg Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. 4 198). Whether this can be kept distinct frwn maritima is 

 still a question. It is a well defined species and always a shrub so far 

 as I have seen. The leaflets are filiform and elongated, mostly twice a5 

 loniT as those of maritima, Maritima never is a ^rub so far as I caa 



find. 



THE PASSING BOTANISTS 



^ - The last few years have taken a heavy toll of the old botanists. U 

 13 less than 100 years since the real botanical work in the United States 

 began. My own life has spanned over half of that period. When I waS 

 a boy the names of Nuttall, Fendler, Wislizenus, Parry, Bigelow, Thur- 

 ber, Kellogg, Hall and Harbour, Torrcy, Gray, Engelmann, Wm. Boott. 

 Lesquereux, Bentham, Sir Joseph Hooker, Eaton were familiar to all 

 botanists.^ Then came a host of government explorers connected with the 

 transcontinental railroad surveys, James, Watson, Stansbury, Gunnison, 

 Coulter, Brandegee, Wheeler, Rothrock, Porter, etc. The naming of their 

 collection5 was done mostly by Gray, Engelmann, Boott. Eaton and 



Lcsqu 



Then in the sevenries there began many private collectors in exploring 

 the regions of the so-called wild west. Hall and Harbour and H- N. 

 folT^^ ^"""l Brandegee did Colorado. I began work in Colorado in 

 ?'^ l^JJ ' ^^JT ^'^ Nebraska. Kelsey did Montana near Helena, 

 so did Rydburg. Leiberg worked in western Idaho, Cusick in Oregon, 

 also Howell, Tweedy, and others. Greene in New 



California, 

 and western 



Mexico 



Mexico 



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seventies that John M. Coulter 



