182 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
philus, Gr.; ; the western form of the southern Loncera flava is L. Sulli iwantii, Gr., 
which latter nee isa replace the former in our northern manuals; while L. 
parviflora, Lam., ued, ae Hl. 
The "Rubi iacew receive an in a monotypic African genus, Pento- 
opm” to i Oldenlandia Halei ‘ofc Kelp _ Fl. has been referred; while Borre- 
ria disappears, its species appearin nder oe: and the var. montanum 
of nese cron ns is the G. Kamtschaticum of Ste 
Am he Valerians Tournefort’s genus Valerianele appears, pve 
both Fedia and Plectritis; F. Fagopyrum becom nopodifolia, DC 
Fu y ea e » pat tellaria varieties of V. Wonten, aly 
merican Co ome number enera, containing 1,610 
species ‘of whic h 1,551 are indigenous. By far a largest and most di fficult 
s Aster, numbering 124 species, “all patives and as there is no real line of 
ith its 70 
an 50 species more 5) are ppus te wee 
thus 40, Eupatorium 39, Cnicus 37, Bigelovia 31, Brickellia 30, and Coreopsis 
and Hieracium each 28. The Californian genus Hemizonia has sprung Into 
sudden wade ty he with 25 spe ap 9 
The great South American genus Vernonia has but ten species with u 
western Sotanians will be glad to see e additional room given for heretofore paz 
zling forms in a new variety under oveboracensis, called latifolia, and a dis- 
entanglement from V. fasciculata of Nuttall’s V. altissima, which is not only 
ranked as a species mbit t given a new Migr? Sager iflora. In esi Mea Bupeor 
ium, , which i ncludes Sinastisiburs; m, Ell., becom iserratum, 
— Muh, . orrey’s var. othe of E. rtundifio ett 
pu rpuren E. perfoliatum each have — to dispose o of theit 
ong diciied i pearies pilosa, Willd., is L. graminifolia, var. ‘anbia, Gr. ; and 
e genus loses several species belongin pe sections raised to generic rank. 
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its re-discoverer, Dr. Garber, under the generic name-Garberia. The multitu- 
dinous western forms of — sis villosa have Ry So to take shape under 0! 
varieties, which only represent the more marked forms. The rapidly page 
western genus Aplopappus ccaeare with four toh species and eight n 
ties, thirty-five of its forty-three species bearing the name Vm ‘he: ‘ane 
inuloides has been merged with A. uniflorus. In the second genus of the onder, 
omiaed ee ender s. arguta ; 8. linoides of the Manual is made whe ot 8. vee 
S. altissima is 8. rugosa, Mill.; and S. gigantea becomes a V of S. ser 
Brachyeheeta cordata is found in great abundance in 8. Indiana, but the old iran 
of E. Kentucky and southward is cob errs "Boltonia glastifotia is merged er 
, 0 er. M riagies 
B, asteroides, L’H. In the enus Aster ( pines scherbatle 
Diplopappus) several Stina ‘species he eer e, ong whi h A. se ae 
Id section i the latter stood has rs etely 
overhauled, so much so that the Peters will become lost in the vex ripe 
nymy, A. tei Ell., A. diffusus, Ait., each with va arieiids A. Tra adeno ad 
and A. panicula atus, Lam., approximately covering the forms : heretofore inclu 
comet 2° Tysdeenat and A. m ; A. paniculatus also includes A. sv mplez, A. tennife- 
