178 ERYTHEA. 
paper published in the Seventh Volume of the Second Series 
of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 
The volume bears on its title page the date 1841; and this 
was, until recently, always given as the date of Nuttall’s 
paper. But in 1891, Dr. Otto Kuntze found evidence, in 
some European libraries, that the document in question had 
been in the hands of botanists in 1840. 
A copy of the whole volume, now in the botanical library 
of the Catholic University at Washington explains the matter 
fully, and removes all doubt about the date, or rather, dates, 
of Nuttall’s Composite. 
The entire volume was published originally in three parts; 
each part being issued in a paper cover, with title, and date. 
Part I, issued in 1840, has a long table of contents, but 
nothing botanical. 
Part II, also issued in 1840, contains a portion of the 
Descriptions of New Species and Genera of Plants in 
the natural Order of the Composita, collected in a Tour 
across the Continent to the Pacific, ete., by Thomas Nuttall. 
Part III, issued in 1841, contains the remainder of the 
paper above-named. 
The dates, according to the paging, are as follows: 
Pages 283 to 356, 1840. 
“357 ~to 453, 1841. 
Epw. L. GREENE. 
ARCTOSTAPHYLOS ELEGANS, JEPsoN.—This form, I now 
decide, is to be referred to A. manzanita, Parry. I do not 
regard it as even worthy of a varietal name and so make 
record for the benefit of monographers and others. The 
name was published in this journal for January, 1893. (Vol. 
1. p. 15). 
