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needs of the case renamed the second Bartonia, calling it 

 NuUallia. This is the first use ever made of the name, and 

 the full equivalent is stated. 



On the reverting of the first Bartonki from this genus, the 

 species were made a section of Mcnizelia; and so Eafinesque's 

 Nidiallia was evaded. I have long been familiar with 

 these far-western plants. They bear no closer relation to 

 the type of Menizelia than do the species of Eucnide. The 

 last is recognized as a genus by all American botanists except 

 myself. The Bartonia section will sooner or later resume 

 generic rank and title under some one's critical inspection; 

 and the only generic name it can then take aviII be NuftaUicu 



In view of all these contingencies I shall henceforward 



write 



Torr. & Gray. 



if< 



CHRTSAMrilOKA. 



■ 



Darlingtonia^ Torrey, Smithson. Contrib. vi. 4. t. 1 (1853), 

 not of De Candolle (1825). 



De Candolle^s original Darlingtoiiia, based on plants which 

 had been at first placed under Acacia and Mimosa, stood 

 approv^ed by Meisuer, Torrey & Gray, Endlicher and many 

 niore of the ablest critics of genera ; but Bentham i-egarded 

 the plants as species of Dcsmanihus; and perhaps a majority 

 of botanists of to-day would agree to that. Still tlie tenure 

 of this name for our Californian sarraceniaceous herb is 

 rendered too precarious. It may fail us any day, upon the 

 discovery of additional characters in the Candollean genus, or 

 npon any reassertion whatsoever of its generic rank. 



I. Chrysamphora Californica. Darliwjtonia CaUfor- 

 nica, Torr. 1. c. 



1. 



Rat Am. M. Mag. ii. 226 (Feb. 1S18). 



