76 Muhlenbergia, Volume 4 
EDITORIAL 
Muhlenbergia is now settled in its new home, and we hope 
to issue it more regularly in future. It may be fitting in this 
connection to again state that its pages are open and free to all. 
We need more articles, and also need them “right speedily.” 
We do not understand why a journal devoted entirely to the 
higher plants is not better supported. Is it because you are 
expecting some one else to do things? Our advice is to get in 
and do something yourself. 
We wish to call attention to a sometimes misleading feature 
in that excellent work, the North American Flora. In volume 
22, page 208, under illustrations of Rzbes nevadense Kellogg, is 
cited Eastwood, Proc. Cal. Acad. III. Bot. 2: “pl. 23. fi 4-5; pl. 
24. f- 6-7.” Fl. 23. f. 4-5 represents Ribes ascendens Eastw. and 
its variety Jasperae, and fl. 24. f 6-7 are examples of R. Hittel- 
fanum Eastw. and R. glaucescens Eastw. respectively. Three 
species of very different floral structure are here represented, and 
not one of them is Rzbes nevadense, and we are of the opinion 
that it has never been illustrated, for it is apparently not well 
known. Of the figures cited, that of R. glaucescens most nearly 
represents zevadense. In volume 25, page 15, under Geranzum 
Fremonti the illustration cited is “Marcy, Expl. Red Riv. Bot. 
pl. 3.’ We may be mistaken concerning this, but are under the 
impression that the figure cited was drawn from the plant col- 
lected by Fremont in Colorado, and probably represents Geran- 
zum caespitosum James. However, the plate does represent the 
plant which Torrey intended should be the type of G. Fremonzzz, 
but in the meantime Gray described, and credited to Torrey, a 
G. Fremontti, the type of which was collected by Fendler on 
“bottom lands of the Mora River [New Mexico], among shrubs.” 
The point is this: When illustrations are cited, they should rep- 
resent either the actual type of the species, or a plant known to 
be typical, and not some plant described under a different name, 
but which we think ought to be the same. 
