REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, L907. 



115 



Vaughan, T. Wayland. Reports of 

 the scientific results of the expedi- 

 tion to the eastern tropical Pacific, 

 in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by 

 the U. S. Fish Commission steamer 

 Albatross from October. 1904, to 

 March, 1905, Lieut. Commander L. 

 M. Garrett, U. S. Navy, command- 

 ing. VI. Madreporaria. 



I'.ull. Mux. Comp. Zool., i.. No. 

 3, Aim.. 1906, pp. ill-TU, pis. 

 i-x. 

 Of the 10 species found, 8 are de- 

 scribed as new. The localities rep- 

 resented are Taboguilla Island, Bay 

 of Panama; off the Galapagos Is- 

 lands; deep water off Callao and the 

 Galapagos; Easter Island, and Manga 

 Reva. 



- Some Madreporarian corals 

 from French Somaliland, Last Africa. 

 collected by Dr. Charles Gravier. 



I'rur. U. S. Nat. Mils., xxxii. No. 



1526, Apr. is, 1907, pp. 249- 



266, pis. xvii— xxvm. 



Thirty-two species are enumerated, 



of which 4 are new. They comprise 



the Astreans, Fungids, Astreopores, 



and Goniopores. The types of new 



forms are in the Paris Museum, hut 



paratypes or fragments of types are 



in the U. S. National Museum 



BOTANY. 



Gbeene, Edwabd Lee. New western 

 plants. 



Leaflets, i. Sept. 8, 1906, p. 221. 



Senecio orthophyllus from Arizona. 



8. monoensis from California, 8. lie- 



bergii from Idaho, and Erigeron teph- 



rodes from California. 



— A new genus of Rutacese. 



Leaflets, i, Sept. s, mot;, p. 222. 

 Genus Taravaliu, its type otherwise 

 known as Ptelea aptera. These spe- 

 cies are all endemic in Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 



- The genus Leiostemon Raf. 



Leaflets, i. Sept. 8, 1906, p. I'l':'.. 



Oenus long ago founded by Rafi- 

 nesque on Pentstemon ambiguus, and 

 wrongly suppressed by others. Two 

 species are recognized. 

 — ■ The genus Batanthes Raf. 



Leaflets, i. Sept. s, 1906, p. 224. 



Genus of Polemoniacew reduced by 

 others to Oilia. Ten species are 

 western. 



Greene, Edwabd Lee. Four streptan 

 thoid genera. 



Leaflets, i, Sept. 8, 1906, pp. 225' 

 229. 

 Four new cruciferous genera, Disac- 

 canthus Of Texas and Arizona, with 5 

 species. :; new ; Cartiera of the Rocky 

 .Mountains and westward, with 7 

 species, 2 of them new; Guillenia <>( 

 Nevada and California, with 7 species. 

 none new. Tumites lasiophylla Hook, 

 and Arn. the type; Agianthus of 

 southern California, 2 species, both 

 new. 



Certain -rosaceous genera. 



Leaflets, t. Sept. 24, 1906, pp. 

 237-245. 

 Seven new genera, Callionia, based 

 on Potentilla canandensis L. ; Bati- 

 daea, with Rubus idwus L. for its 

 type; Uelanobatun, its type Rubus 

 occidentalis I..: Parmena, its type Ru- 

 bus spectabilis I'ursh ; Curdiobatus, 

 with Rubus nivalis Dougl. for type (this 

 is the only species i ; Psychrobatia, 

 founded on Rubus pedata Smith; 

 Comerobatia, founded on Rubus lasio- 

 cocca < '• raj . 



Some oriental Rubus allies. 



Leaflets, i. Oct., 1906, p. 246. 



On species of Parmena and Bossekia 

 in Japan; also Calyctenium, a new 

 genus based on Rubus pectinellum, 

 .Maxim. 



A new Bland violet. 



Leaflets, i. Oct. 17. 1906, p. 247. 

 Viola minuscula, of northern New 

 York. 



A study of Rhus glabra. 



Ptoc. Wash. Acad. Set., vm. Dec. 



Is. 1906, pp. L67 196. 



A history of geranium, Rhus glabra, 



with restorations of various neglected 



segregates, and diagnoses of a number 



of new species of that alliance. 



Painter, JOSEPH II. I See under Jo- 

 seph X. Rose.) 

 Host;. Joseph X. Terebinthus macdou- 

 galii, a new shrub front Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 



Torreya, vi. No. 8, Aug., 1906, pp. 

 it;: i 171, tig. 5. 

 Contains description of one new- 

 plant. 



— — - Additional notes on Mexican 

 plants of the genus Ribes. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., L, May 

 l. 1907, p. 32. 

 Contains descriptions of Ribes ih<i- 

 drense Coville and Kose. 



