His 



DR. BEITTON AND MR. BRITTEN AND JACKSONIA. 9 



article in wliich tlie name is published— that the author of 

 Jacksonia had no foreign type in mind; that what he knew, 

 by his own observation, to be a thing distinct from Cleome, 

 and called Jacksonia, was the North American plant; and 

 that it never at any time entered into his thought to give any 

 Indian species of Cleome the rank of a new generic type. 



only error— a small one, and of a kind which botanists 

 are often betrayed into— was that of writing an L. when he 

 should have written an Michx. after a certain plant name. 

 If this had not been explained by him— if he had not given 

 the botanical world to see that he meant the plant of 

 Michaux and no other— then would Dr. Britton have been 

 correct, and I should not have applied the name Jacksonia, 

 as^ I have done, when defending the genus. But, as 

 things stand printed, in the very column which Dr. Brit- 

 ton quotes so insufficiently, it will forever be plain that 

 the Brunonian Jacksonia is the one that is dead; and that 

 the Rafinesquian is very far from having received, or being 

 in waiting for, its coup de grace. 



CALIFORNIAN HEEB-LOKE.— III. 



By Ida M. Blochman. 



In those primitive times when grocery stores were yet a 

 luxury in Southern California, the Spanish laundress discov- 

 ered several bleaching agents and substitutes for soap in 

 roots from the hills and canyons. With these and cold water 

 from the family spring she kneeled over her smooth wash- 

 board and made her clothes so white that they rivaled the 

 best results now obtained with improved washing machines, 

 and soap which inspires the poet's pen. 



The Cucurhiia fceiidissima^ called Chili Cojote by the 

 natives, which trails its rough, vile-smelling herbage over 

 large areas of our low river plains, possesses rare medicinal 

 properties in its leaves; these, perhaps, may be mentioned 

 in some future paper, but to-day we concern ourselves only 

 with the large fusiform root. 



