17 
MR. ROSE AND THE UMBELLIFERAE. 
na recent number from the National Museum Mr. Rose 
goes over certain genera criticised by me in my last Contribu- 
were not good species. 
Mr. Rose, in commenting on my reductions, says there is 
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genus to be well established must first rest on sure natural 
grounds, and, second, must be properly characterized. I have 
se. 
Ph terus. This is credited to Torrey & Gray’s Flora 
1 623, but there is no such genus published there. It is, how- 
ever, given as a section of Cymopterus by Nuttall and ap- 
proved by them. Its character there given is “Calyx teeth 
earpophore none.” Coulter and Rose in erecting this into a 
genus, p. 166, give it as of Nutt. when it should be (Nutt.) G 
& R. They give the characters of the genus so far as paral- 
leling Nuttall is. concerned “Calyx teeth evident.” Pericarp 
ing in the whole genus of Cymopterus and its segregates ac- 
cording to Coulter and Rose, and as the oil tubes are equally 
variable in the whole genus there is not a character given bv 
