•SCHIZONOTUS AND SOLANOA. TTT 



ever taken cognizance of the fact that Eafinesqtie had used 

 the name. 



For this latest and surely untenable Schizonoiiis I oifer as 



a substitute the name 



SO LAM) A.' 



ScHizoNOTUS, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 66 (lb76), not of 

 Liudley (1830), nor of Eafiuesque (1838); the only known 

 species being 



S. PURPUBASCKNS. Gomphocarpus ptn-purn^^cens, Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. x. 76 (ISTJLj ; Bot. Calif . i. 477 (§Schizo- 

 aotas) : Schizoaotiis purpiirascens^ Gray, Proc. Am, Acad, 

 sii. G6; Syn. FL i. Part 2. 100, 



New Cat.ifornian Plants. 



By J. G. Lemmon. 



Peunus subcokdata, var. Kelloggii.* Usually 6 to 12 feet 

 liigh, the young shrubs with ascending branches, the older 



' The name of the celebrated Catholic Missiouary Francisco Solano 

 was siveii to one of the early Californinn Missions. The first Christian 

 cliief of the aboriginal tribes inhabiting the western side of the Sacra- 

 niento valley and collectively denominated the "Suisunes" took Sohino 

 as his baptismal name. The residence of Solano was in the SnisUu 

 valley, a part of the present Solano Connfv, California, near the borders 

 of which, probably within which, occurs the plant Solanoa. 



' This variety has been well known and always popularly distinguished 

 from the type, ever since the early days of immigration to Cahforuia 

 from the eastward. Dr. Kellogg described it. though without giving it 

 a varietal name, as early as 1859, in Hutchiug's Magazine, page . of 

 Volume V. See also Wickson, Calif. Fruits, p. 50. e. l. a. 



