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NYCTAGINACAE, by Standley. 
This recent publication by the Department of Botany in 
the Smithsonian Institute is ostensibly a review of the Nyc- 
taginacez, but actually it is an attempt to vindicate P. A. Ryd- 
berg, of whom the author is a protege. 
e writer of this review of Standley’s work published a 
monograph of the Nvctaginacee in Contributions No. 10, This 
work was based on nearly thirty years’ observations in the field 
and on a very large amount of herbarium material, 
caps the climax of absurdity by calling’ Abronia micrantha var. 
_ pedunculata Jones a species while he has never seen but a sin-- 
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gle specimen of it and does not know that I have plenty of — 
specimens of it with both sessile and peduncled heads on the — 
same plant. I may wait in breathless suspense for him to n+? 
