194 AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 



Cyphorima Raf.' 



This genus by important characters not ordinarily sufficiently 

 emphasized deserves recognition even if Batschia be reduced to 

 Lithospermiim Linn. De Candolle^ made Batschia linearifolia or 

 Lithospermum linearifolhim Goldie typical of his genus Pentalophiis.^ 

 Not well acquainted with the synonymy of the plant he simul- 

 taneously had it under Lithospermum as L. angustifolium'* Michx. 

 These are now shown to be identical. There is no doubt that ^ 

 De Candolle described this plant as type of Pentalophus apparent 

 from his description as well as quotation of synonymy. 



Apart from the very notable character of having cleistogamous, 

 flowers, a character rather unusual in the Asperifoliae the plant 

 is well distinguished in other ways even from Batschia itself. The 

 corolla tube is very long, three to five times that of the calix, 

 and the lobes erose-denticulate, notably salver shaped, or trumpet 

 shaped. The nutlets are keeled and the corolla appendgaes 

 large and arching, the flowers becoming reflexed on their pedicels 

 when the fruit forms. 



Cyphorima Rafinesque, 1. c. 



Lithos permimi Tann. or Batschia Gmelin in part. 



Cyphorima angustifolia (Michx.) Nov. comb. 



Lithospermum linearifolium Goldie. Eiiinb. Phil. Jr. p. 322, 

 (1822). 



Lithospermum angustijolium Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i, p. 130, 

 (1803). Not Forskal. 



Pentalophus longijiorus D. C. 1. c. 



Pentalophus angustijolius (Michx.) 



Batschia longiflora Nuttall. Gen. i, p. 114, (1S18). 



Why Matteucia? 



There can be little doubt to those carefully studying the 

 original works thai the name Struthioptfrts was first used for the 

 Ostrich fern, (Matteucia Struthiopteris (Linn.) Todaro), by the 

 discoverer of this plant. Its first publication was made by Valerius 



1 Rafinesque, C. S., Am. Monthly Mat;;, p. 191, 357, (1819) Cat. 13, 

 (1824). 



2 De Candolle, A. Prod. X., p. 86, (1846). 



3 1. c. p. 79. 



4 1. c. 78. 



