115 



Thermopsis fabacea (Pall.) DC, Prodr. 2:99, 1825. 



Sophora fabacea Pall., Sp. Astragal. 122-123, t. 90, fig. 2, 

 1800. 



T. fabacea (Pall.) DC, was listed by Torrey as the name for 

 This was a misidentification, and there is no indication that the 

 certain Californian collections (Bot. Mex. Boundary 58, 1859). 

 binomial was being published as a combination by DC. ex Torr., 

 as stated by Larisey (p. 255). The Asiatic T. fabacea resembles 

 T. montana var. ovata, but is certainly a different species because 

 it has the legumes longer stipitate with the stipes often exserted, 

 the calyx silky villous, and the leaflets larger and broader. 



T. fabacea (Pall.) DC. is restricted to northeastern Asia, i.e., 

 from Kamtchatka, the Kurile Islands, and south to the Liu Kiu 

 Islands and Fukien (fide Hulten, Fl. Kamtchatka, 3 : 93-95, 

 1929). 



If T. fabacea (Pall.) DC. ex Hooker (Fl. Bor.-Am. 1: 128, 

 1838) is really, as cited by Larisey (p. 253), a synonym of T. mon- 

 tana Nutt. (1840), it would have to be adopted as the earliest name. 

 However, Hooker's treatment was actually printed in 1830 (not 

 1838), but T. fabacea was not there published as new. Hooker 

 credited it to the real author of the combination, De Candolle. 

 Hooker's use of the name was only a misidentification of the plant 

 of northwestern North America with the one of northeastern 

 Asia, and he should not be credited with making a synonym. Hence, 

 T. montana Nutt. and its var. ovata (B. L. Robins.) St. John should 

 be accepted as the correct names for the related American plants. 



University of Hawaii, 

 Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. 



Does Ficinia filiformis Still Live in Jersey City? 



Charles Gilly 



Recent examination of a specimen collected by the late Judge 

 Addison Brown, September 20, 1880, "from ballast, near Com- 

 munipaw Ferry, N. J." (the present Liberty Street ferry-landing 

 and terminal of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, in Jersey 

 City), shows it to be Ficinia filiformis Schrad., a native of the Cape 



