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Quamasia Quamash (Pursh) Coville. An examination of a largo a- 

 mount of material coupled with much field work shows that this 

 is not distinct from C. Leichtlinii. The senseless name of Coville 

 I reject for evident reasons. It seems to have escaped the notice 

 of Watson and others lhat the petals are 3-nerved and the sopals 

 4-7-nervcd, or at times even more. The species Cusiekii, Howellii, 

 and Suksdorfii probably can hold but are very weak. 



OECOIDACE^E. 



Gyrostachys is credited to Persoon's Synopsis 2 Ml by the 

 Kew Index, and by Britton Fl.-l 47". It seems that the first one 

 to copy this blunder was Kuntze, then UacMillan, then Britton 

 and Kydberg tagged along behind, all too careless to look it up. 

 lhe modest way in which they forget to remember to call our at- 

 tention to their fake names so made is in vivid contrast with the 

 noisy way Lydberg calls our attention to Ames's blunder on Sera- 

 pms in a recent Bulletin. It would seem that the making of a lot 

 oi fake names because certain people were too lazy to look up a 

 reference right at hand was an inadvertance not worth mention- 

 ing, while fur Ames to mane a new name or so after long research 

 because he failed to find an obscure reference that nobody knew 

 anything about (and Ilydberg found only accidental^) was little 

 short of a botanical crime. What a difference it makes whether 



«v 1 1 v : teu cent lllece right over the e >' e or P uts *« a milc a " 



way as to its apparent size. 



fiff^T «fl; i ?• ib2 ^\™JWs after Spiranthes Richard, and 

 fifteen after Ibidium Salisb. 



™A hAll^T^t l n ch ^J n « °P Rydherg's work on this genus 

 over L off ° f Kra " zll ^ s '^vision it became necessary to go 

 care or til , ? P ro l )0sed species and genera. I see no evidence of 

 care or thoroughness, or the unearthing of new facts His new 



genera are based not on discoveries hntn,, nhZ i u 



fn^-n hr> w^ c i, n „, u- ul -. to ^nes, out o,i characters known be- 



Sante JTaS^SI T Ch ' & ar ° krge,y d <*™Ption S of individual 

 BuH 4 61 1 ?hp g f^fW «« generalization. In Torr. 

 Jiull ..8 61 1-2 he calls attention to some errors of Kra?uzlin's 



mirk TZIlZ^ J" " °" T^"* b ^anists often mis S 

 hck of local fill w" l We i eXp9Ct ^ Enr °P* a n to do as well who by 

 and sav ' 1 IAZ\ d °V* kn ° W a ° ouIee from a toadstool) 

 fleet ^ ittletldTt to n SU( ;i nume ">M»«d glaring mistakes re- 



flagellar, which is l.terally true, but he^tt ^ollyunT 



