CONTRIBUTIONS 





to 



WESTERN BOTANY, 



NO. 14. 



NEW SPECIES AND NOTES 



Grass Notes 



Piper, in his Flora of Washington, gives Danthonia Califor- 

 nicaBol. as Proc Cal. Acad. 2 182 1858-82. It should be 1863. 



On page 12? he gives Meliea stricta in the key and leaves k 

 out of the text. 



On page 1 32 he gives Poa leptocoma as published in 1830, 

 but it was 1832 



On the same page he gives Poa Canbyi as his own, when it is 

 Howell Fl. 761. 



On page 147 he gives Agropyron Richardsonii as published by 

 Schrader in Shear's Bull. Div. Ag. 4 1897, when it was published 

 in Linmea 12 467 1838. 



On the same page he quotes Agropyron biflornm Brign., 

 when it should be Triticum. 



On page 148 he has Triticum caninum var. Gmelini as pub- 

 lished in Ledebour's Fl. Ross. pi. 248. There are no plates in 

 that Flora. It should be his I codes, tx. 



On page 122 he quotes correctly Scrib tier's impossible Dan- 

 thonia thermale, and on page 148 incorrectly quotes Scribner's e- 

 qually impossible Elyraus saxicolus. 



tinder Meliea in the key he has transposed the characters of 

 M. Smithii and M. aristata. 



On page 150 he gives Elymus arenarius under grasses without 

 running rootstocks, while it is the reverse. 



Sitanion, Elymus and Agropyron he mixes up so much that 



