E. & P. 



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The main work bears the title: "Flora Peruvmna, et 

 Chilensis, Sive Descriptiones, et Icones Plantarum Peruvian- 

 arum et Chilensium Secundum Systema Lmneanum Digestae 

 cum Characteribus Plurium Generum Evulgatorum Eefor- 



matis." 



The first volume bears the date 1798; the second, 1799; tlie 



third, 1802. 



Among the sp.ecies here described for the first time, which 

 are of especial interest to us, are the following: 



Ac^nairifida E. & P., vol. 1, p. 67 Tins p ant seems to 

 have been obtained in Chile. It is beautiully figured and 

 minutely described, and the figure and the description a^gree 

 in all points. Should Chilian specimens agree with the hgui e 

 and description as given in this volume-and m the absence 

 of evidence to the contrary it is almost fair to assume that 

 this is the fact-it would be impossible for ^^ *« ^^^^^ 

 plant which grows along the shore about here and wl^^h 

 men seem to have called Acc^na irifida R. & P., by that 

 name, and from the evidence at hand I should be compelkd 

 to give it some other designation. For, according to the 

 description, the Aoe^na irifida of R. & P. has globose sp^ks 

 "spicis globosis," and "foliola cuneiforma, trifidia nonnulla 

 Jadri-qninquefida." And the figure shows that the wo d 

 "globosl" is used in the same sense that we -f-f -^^ ;*; 

 Such a term could of course in no way be applied to an 

 stage of the development of the inflorescence of our plant^ 

 And the figure shows us, too, that the word "nonnulla was 

 f^Ty chosL For the leaflets are almost without exception 

 trifid, while in our plant they are equally almost without ex- 

 cepti;n "quadri-quLquefida." But I leave the giving of a 

 name to our species to those who have an opportunity to 



examine Chilian specimens; for neither m t^^^^^^^^^'l^^^ 

 .1.. TT„: ;^, „* n„i.-<=...r,in Tinr in that of the California 



ifi 



University of California nor m 

 Academy are any to be found. 



I should like to say a word or twc _ 



R & P. and Bowlesla lohata, R. & P., but fear that I may 

 have taxed already the limit of my space to its utmost. 



