NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 141 
"C. BREWERI = Eucharidium Breweri, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 
vi. 582; Brew. & Wats. l. e. This rare plant does not appear 
to have been found again since the days of its discovery by 
.. Prof. Brewer. 
CARPENTERIA CALIFORNICA. Since the publication of pages 
67 and 68 preceding, one friend has called to my notice the fact 
that the Botanical Magazine for last year gave an excellent 
figure of Carpenteria as it has flowered in England; and 
another has assured me that the shrubs are atlvertised for sale 
by an horticultural firm in Philadelphia; so that the plant is 
less rare than I had supposed. 
CUPHEA MESOCHLOA — Cuphea viridosloma, S. Watson, Proc. 
Am. Acad. xxii. 419. Now and then a name gets made which. 
it may be assumed, not even priority can save; and viridos- 
. toma must be relegated to that class, I think. It is incapable 
of any grammatical correction which will not alter its form 
beyond recognition as the same name. Or will the eminent 
critic who last year allowed Calyptridium quadripetalum to 
pass, tell us that viridis has even “a precarious lodgment' " 
in the Greek lexicon, or stoma in the Latin ? 
Purox GRactILis — Qila gracilis, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2994 : 
Collomia gracilis, Dougl. in Hook. 1. ¢.; Benth. in Bot. Reg. 
t. 1622; Gray, Syn. Fl. 135.— This interesting plant came to 
the knowledge of botanists some years in advance of Phlox 
Drummondii and its allies. It was, at the first, a thing of 
dubious aspect, not at home in either Gilia or Collomia. But 
since the discovery of the Texan group of annual species of 
Phlox with peculiar habit, it must have been the mere force 
of custom which has kept men from seeing that it is an abso- 
lutely perfect congener of Phlox Drummondit. 
PHACELIA NEMORALIS. Biennial, or sometimes perennial. 
2—4 feet high, loosely branching, hispid throughout and desti- 
"A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 284. 
