1895.] North American Amaranthacee. 453 
structure to a place of secondary importance. While there 
is no question that Moquin-Tandon has multiplied species 
far too freely, we are unwilling to accept this color basis as a 
satisfactory solution. Again, why has he not followed the 
law of priority and adopted the earliest published name from 
among the merged species, instead of naming de novo? 
A. BRASILIANA MOQUINI (Webb. ). 
Telanthera Moquini Webb. ex Mog. |. c. 379. 1849. 
Plant glabrate, suffruticose, with ovate leaves larger and 
wider than in the species, and slender 5-angled pedicel. — 
Florida Keys. 
Type (Key West, Florida, Blodgett,) in herb. Columbia 
College. Only one Florida specimen was seen, but it con- 
forms closely with authenticated South American specimens. 
_A. GRACILIS (Mart. et Galeot.) occurs as far north as Tam- 
Pico, Mexico, but has not yet been reported from our terri- 
tory. . 
A. FICOIDEA RADICANS R, & S. (incl. 7. polygonotdes Mog.) 
was said by Moquin-Tandon to have been found in Carolina. 
apman has adopted this, on the strength of which he in- 
cludes 7. polygonotdes in his Southern Flora. The very close 
resemblance of this variety (ex descr.) to the indigenous A. 
repens and A. paronychioides of that region, together with the 
fact that J. polygonoides has not otherwise been known north 
of the West Indies, make it quite probable that Moquin’s plant 
was one of the above species. 
Telanthera polygonoides brachiata (Schrad.) Mog. |. c.= 
ALTERNANTHERA FICOIDEA BRACHIATA (Schrad.). 
Mogiphanes rosea Morong in Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 7: 
1893 — ALTERNANTHERA ROSEA (Morong). 
Telanthera Tuerckheimii Vatke ined. = GOMPHRENA 
TUERCKHEIMII (Vatke) U. & B. in Bot. Gaz. 20: 161. 1895. 
Lake Forest University. 
