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get the evening train home from there. 



Niland. Annual vegetation a few inches high. Astragalus limatus 

 in bloom, Encelia criocephala in bloom. Had a hard rain iiere ip; last 

 few days. Everything w^. 



NOTES AND NEW SPECIES OF MEXICAN PLANTS 



"Anemia intermedia Copel Sp. n. 



Rhizomate breve, adscendente; stipitibus pluriseriatis, fasciculatis, 

 usque ad 8 cm. altis, rhachibusque pilis ferrugineis fuscentibus 1-2 mm. 

 longis densissime vestitis; fronde 5-8 cm. longa, ovata, tripinnatifida, 

 inter pila albida alils hyaliniis nitidis minutis pluficellaulaiibus absita; 

 pinnis infimis frondum maporum fertilibus, late ovatis sequentibus yix 

 aequantibus, horizontalibus, bipinnatis vel maximis rhachin prope etiam 

 tripinnatifidis, lamina valde contracta pilis omriino occulta; pinnis steri- 

 libus inferioribus, 3 cm. longis, brevissime pedicellatis; pmnuTis infimis 



suboppositis, pinnatim incisolobatis. 



Mexico, Nyarit, Acaponeta, '*E1 Tigre Mice," altitude 1,000 m.. 



Marcus E. Jones, No. 23472, March, 1927. 



relative is A. Rrandegeea Dav., -a much smaHer and 

 correspondingly less dissected plant; both are alike distinguished from A. 

 cnthhriscifolia, probably their nearest relative, with long-taslked ferine 

 pinnae, by the ctanparatively slight modification oT fhe latter. The sug- 

 gestion naturally raises itself that this is an ample term ot A. :Brjnd^geea 

 respectively that the latter happened to be described from a ven' stunte- 



nearest 



form 



form 



of that species in tiie Brandegee herbarium that the specimens arf n- 1 v 

 •dult. If dwrafed, then, it must have been by the envirrairaent. wln-b 

 would almost certainly have accentuated the haimess. ^ut flie paunt here 

 described is not only much larger, but also decidedly more liauy the di . - 

 ference being most marked on the fertile pinnae. , Also the broadlv cliit.- 

 shaped shining microscopic pluricellulaT trichomes are distinctive. ^Beyond 

 the ahnost or apparently opposite lowest pinnules, the succeedmg ones an 



borne lowest on the acrosccwjic side. ^ ji a vv . 



The tennination of the specific name Brand^g^ea ^as deafly deliber- 

 ate on Davenport's part, as shown, in connection with the publication b. 

 a manuscript postal card preserved in the Brandegee herbanum. It c^n 

 be construed only as a pr<^r noun in apposition. However much bettj^ 

 Maxon's change to die genitive Brat0egn conforms to general tisage, 1 do 

 not believe that it is permissible, any more than is a change m Swartz 

 spelling, Artemia." Copeland. , . :» *^ „„j „,™.t 



Remarks bv Jones I have seen the postcard ^^^^ X^ '.^. 

 that on its face' Davenport wrote flie word Brandegeea, T)ut rtas ;n my 

 opinion a clerical error for BranSegeeae, he intending to honor ^It%. 

 Brandegee. 



