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from the mention of an occasional pink color in the flowers of 

 R. occidenfdle as described, that R. Sonomcnse is not wanting 

 iu the herbaria ; but I am confident it ought not to be 

 coufased with the other. 



Eeiogonum elegans. Related to E. saxafUe, though 

 annual, wi^h the inflorescence of E. viwincvmj very slender, 

 a span to nearly a foot high, the proper stem simple, ouly 1 

 to 3 inches high, very leafy throughout and, like both faces 

 of tlie leaves, white witli a dense floccose tomentum : leaves 

 small, obcordate, broader than long, undulate, tapering to a 

 petiole of 1 inch or less : peduncle slender, repeatedly 

 dichotomous into slender virgate branchlets which are 

 reddish, glabrous and glaucesceut: involucres minute {\ line 

 Joiig), sessile, turbinate, nerveless, rather promii-ently 5- 

 toothed, glabrous except the woolly-ciliolate margin : peri- 

 anth roughish-puberulent, rose-red, \ line long, the segments 

 oblong-obovate, gradually attenuate to the base. 



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Calif., August, 1891, A. Norton. 



Monte 



S(jME Neglected Priorities in Generic 



Nomenclature. 



In an earlier paper I took up a small portion of thoi^e 

 genera which Rafiuesque had first published, but which most 

 authors had afterwards ignored.' I no\r add others, some of 

 which owe their proposal to other botanists more in pubb'c 

 favor than was Eafinesque in bis day, and which were dis- 

 placed in favor of later names with the consent of the authors 

 themselves; a circumstance which, as has often been said, 



' Pittouia, ii. 120. 



