36 ERYTHEA. 
ulous: capsule ovoid, acuminate, more than half the length 
of the calyx; seeds 8 to 12, oblong to obovate, favose-pitted. 
On rocky ridges in the Umpqua Valley, Oregon. Related 
to P. Menziesii, but with much smaller flowers of a lighter 
shade of blue, and a very different habit. 
CORRECTIONS IN NOMENCLATURE.—VI. 
By Epwarp L. GREENE. 
Le pidium medium. JL. intermediwm, A. Gray, PI. 
Wright. ii. 15 (1853), not of A. Richard, Tent. Fl. AnpeTe i 
21 (1847). 
- Potentilla nubigena. P. decipiens, Greene, Pitt. i. 106 
(1887), not of Jordan, in Verlot, Cat. Jard. Grenoble, 28 
(1856) 
Potentilla stenoloba. P. tenuiloba, Greene, Pitt. i. 105 
(1887), not of Jordan, Pugill. Pl. Nov. 67 (1852). 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 
Tur “List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta of North- 
eastern North America” was received at Berkeley, January 
25, 1895. The “Signatures,” or successively printed parts, 
bear various dates from December 4, 1893 to December 16, 
1894, and were said to have been distributed to a certain 
number of people; but neither the “ List” nor any part of it 
was, so far as we can discover, offered to the botanical public 
until the middle of September, 1894. But that aside, it is 
desirable to know if the public might have obtained the 
“ Signatures ” as printed. If not, it is questionable whether 
limited actual distribution by “ Signatures” will constitute 
publication.—w. L. J. 
Mr. T. H. Kearney, JR., recently Curator of the Columbia 
College Herbarium, has been appointed an Assistant in the 
Division of Botany, U. 8. Department of Agriculture. 
