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and short branched and rigid and with small glaucous and slight- 
ly toothed leaves and has a small berry or two it is Amelanchier 
Utahensis, when it grows in a better soil and develops larger 
leaves and more berries it has half a dozen names according to 
whether the leaves have more or less teeth and the petals are 
larger or smaller, and when it grows still farther north where 
it has a chance to grow normally it has a new crop of names ac- 
cording to the size of the berries, the shape of the leaves and the 
petals, till it has more names than a German crown prince, even 
traction. The editor refused to retract saying that they never 
made any mistakes, and that all he could do for him was to put 
him in among the births. This seems to be Greene’s method, the 
intergrading forms come in among the births. Whatever may be 
our conception of the origin of species it seems to the writer that 
the only scientific way is to keep recent derivatives in the same 
group, nothing is gained by raising them to specific rank (except 
a temporary notoriety of which the author will be heartily ashamed 
later). Take for example Astragalus lentiginosus. This is the 
most variable of all Astragali, it has both geographical and ecolog- 
ical varieties which have been described as species to the number 
of a score or more. There is complete transition between all the 
forms and the extreme ones are remarkably different from each 
other. The common form in central Utah Gray called diphysus. 
It grows in gravelly soil somewhat alkaline, is ascending, rather 
stout, with narrow flowers, chartaceous 2-celled pods varying from 
ovate to round and often has a falcate tip. The climate is not hot. 
As we go northward into Idaho the pods become stiffer but never 
horny, smaller, more falcate, but the plant has the same axillary 
and subterminal racemes longer than the leaves. As we go west- 
ward into Nevada where the influence of the humidity of the 
Wasatch is not felt and the rainfall is below eight inches per 
p: one with the 
