1886.] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 97 
_ than the bate and the florets are usually crowded. In a former number 
‘the Gazerre (vol. ix. p- 169) it was stated that this grass * oonatizated a goo od 
genus iteel! distinct from Colpodium and Fluminia and still farther removed 
irom Graphephorum melicoides. Its true relationship is somewhat obscure, 
but there can be no hesitation in placing ste ith the vations As to Graphe- 
phorum melicoides and Wollfii, their affinities are e Avenee. The for- 
mer was first published under Aira and the latter under Trisetum 1 They dif- 
er from Trivett m only in the less bined lobes of the flowering glum d in 
the shorter awns phephorum melicoides, usually ribed as awnless, is 
sometimes short awned like G. Wolfii. So closely allied are these two species, 
that slender forms of the latter might easily be mistake f ormer. Th 
this mistake has eee is evident from the fact that Utah and Wyoming 
va ——s in the range of G. melicoides, where only G. Wolfii has, as yet, 
een id; 
n page 403 oda ee apes um Ell. is described. It is exceedingly doubtful 
if this plant has ever been found in the interior. 
Setaria sete var. cau dan Mees should read S. sefosa, var. caudata Griseb. 
(See Gris sea Flor. Br. W. I 55 
Androp gon wpcomee Muni eile an older synonym, A. provincialis Lam 
(See Scribner, in Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. a De 116.) A. Hallii Hackl. Sitzb. 
der k, Ak .d. Wiseosch, Band Ixxxix. p. 127) is not an infrequent ee 
he the Rocky Mt. region from Arizona to finan It is No. 651 Hall & 
arbour 
Muhlenb ergia wari var. setiglumis Watson (p. 409) is ML. ambigua, Torr. 
in Niccolet’s Rept. p 
Vilfa a Bore. and depauperata Torr. — first placed in Sporobolus 
by Scribne e Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, ix. No. 8.) 
; Beawvat feos Lies. is Deschampsia leak Gtinsh. (Spic. ii. p. 457), and not 
0 
a 
ing Aira latifolia Hook. in Deschampsia, a new specific name must 
be give Ay as 18 latifolia 1 is cole sag It sate ese be cole ee Hooker 
unro never name Califo d havea ‘Sileroeoa 
Catifornica, which is abun ay distinct om te ig o f Nutta 
Phi poe should be quoted as the author of Poa tenuifolia a aa we 
ila 
Poa arctica (on page 422) is P. leptocoma Trin. Poa arctica Be, iad. 
enesia All, 
romus cine ners should be given to Buckley, who published t 
species odes tha - ham in 1862, twelve years before Thurber’s publication.— 
‘Lamsoyw Scrrener. 
EDITORIAL. 
E custom, which happily is now quite general among botanical writers, 
at ay in America, of distributing separate copies or “ extras” of articles pub- 
ished in ls, reports of societies, ete., is one especially to be commended. 
It is mutually helpful to the author and the recipient, and places the publica- 
Hons Saag in the hands of those who can make the best use of them, Jone 
i i t is 
re necessary to make a proper citation from it, the same as if the ole in 
which it was first published were consulted. For this reason it is essential that 
the original paging should not be changed, and that it should bear the name 
wee 4, Ssh ave ss aac IEE Sea 
* Bot. Gaz., ix. 168. 
