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of the genera we find the w-ork quite unsafisfactorj^ For example: 

 Schrankia, a genus with over half a dozen Mexican species, is not given 

 at all. When we come to the palms we find Standley knows nothing 

 about Washingtonia' or Erythea, just follows published species, but shows 

 no study of either genus, or has any conception of the real generic char- 

 acters if there are any. But he recognizes all the published species as 

 good, when in fact probably not Jialf of them are any good. The same 

 treatment is accorded the persimmons species. From his book no one 

 knows whether there is one species or nearly half a dozen. As to geo- 

 graphical distribution he is all at sea, showing very little knowledge of 

 the distribution of plants in Mexico. The fact that most of Mexico i> 

 in the Tropical life zone, and that distribution is more a matter of 

 humidity and accident, adds to the confusion. 



ADDITIONAL U. S, NOTES. 



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Iva Nevadensis Jones. Dr. Asa Gray, in the Synoptical Flora 247 

 says of this, "but Akenes not ^finely striate/" Anyone who has ever put 

 the akenes of this species under the microscope knows that they are finely 

 striate, Gray to the contrary notwithstanding, and there was no occasion 

 for this outburst just because I dared to publish my own species in my 

 own way. Gray was first, last and all the time a gentleman, except in 

 such cases as this when we printed our species without consulting him, 

 and then he was a boor. His attack on Buckley for coining new names 

 for Nuttallian species, though justified, was a case in point, and he did 

 not Hesitate to misstate things then. 



Berberis Fremontii Torn In the Botany of the Mexican Boundary, 

 page 30, Torrey gives the type locality as western Texas and New Mexico, 

 and in his description he gives the berries as blue. What should have 



been 



and Nevada 



l>erri€a They are light-yellow, normally decidedly inflated, and rarely 

 red. Occasionally they are full of pulp and then red and make fine pre- 

 serves, but for the most part are punctured by an insect and bladdery. I 

 have seen millions of specimens of it and never yet saw a solid berry. It 

 i? certain that in his description Torrey confused B, Wilcoxii with Jiis 



tA'pe. 



Crossosoma Bigelovii Watson. The type of this species was got on 



the Bill Williams river, which is the first draw south of the Chimhuevis 

 mountains, Arizona. I got material of the species in the latter place in 

 full flower. My material would correspond well with Robinson and Fer- 

 nald's C. parviflora, for the flowers are quite small. Material got by 

 myself and others in the Catalina mountains, Arizona, have flowers twice 

 as lar^i'e, and the twigs well developed and making the leaves scattered 

 and not ' fascicled. The petals in this form are cuneate-oblanceolate. In 

 the form referred to here from WTiitewater, California, the flowers are ^e 

 same ^ize as the Catalina form, and petals oblong-oblanceolate, and half 



