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are those which were assigned them by Persoon in 1805; 
while for the Europeau species one has choice of two 
already published names, the oldest combination being 
O. vulgaris, Hill (1756); the other O. palustris, Pers. (1805); 
this last having the most complete priority as a binary 
name, because it unites the oldest specific name and the 
oldest generie; for the plant was known long before even 
Tournefort as Vitisidza palustris, C. Bauhin. 
New or NorEwonTHY SrrEcikes.—X VIII. 
CARDAMINE UMBELLATA. Stems several, 10 to 20 inches 
high from slender horizontal rootstocks, erect, sparingly 
leafy to the summit, the herbage glabrous: all the leaves 
pinnate, the lowest with from 3 to 5 rounded or oval, the 
upper with 5 or 7 more elongated leaflets, these all entire or 
very sparingly toothed: flowers few, small, white, often 3 to 
5 only and from corymbose to subumbellate: pods erect (on 
pedicels of about 4 inch), about 2 line wide, 2 to 1 inch 
long including the prominent beak; valves not elastic; 
seeds about 8 or 9 under each valve, rather large. 
St. Paul Island, Behring Sea, collected by Mr. James M. 
Macoun in 1891 and 1892. Species somewhat nearly allied 
to the Californian C. Breweri. A plant very similar to this, 
and no doubt specifically identical, was collected in 1852, 
by Mr. Funston, at Khantaak Island, Alaska; but the leaves 
of this are sparingly hispid-eiliolate, a character of which 
there are obscure traces in some of Mr. Macoun’s specimens. 
CARDAMINE NEGLECTA. Slender, glabrous, the simple up- 
right stem 4 to 7 inches high, from a small ovoid or oblong 
perpendicular not deep-seated tuber: basal leaves 1 to 3, 
with small orbicular lamina and elongated petiole; cauline — 
leaves 2 to 4, lyrate, with 1 or 2 pairs of lateral leaflets of 
rounded or oblong outline, entire, 2 to 4 lines long, anda — 
