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 SHORTER NOTES 



"Disappearing Wild Flowers/' — In the Journal of Botany 

 for May, under the above headmg, it is stated that the London 

 Times has published several letters calling attention to the de- 

 struction of our wild flowers and stating that " it is time that 

 additional steps were taken to protect wild plants and flowers." 

 In Devonshire, the home of the primroses, they are rapidly dis- 

 appearing and there are very few of them left within a circle of 

 twenty-five miles around London. Ferns and orchids also have 

 been extirpated. " Even in areas such as public parks, where 

 special prohibitions are in force, there has been increased defiance 

 of them since the War, mainly owing to the diminution of effec- 

 tive supervision." This has been the case in the parks of New 

 York City also and it emphasizes the danger to any flower that 

 has become popular or is specially desirable. 



E. G. Britton 

 New York Botanical Garden 



New Specific Name. — I find that the specific name oligocaenica 

 proposed by me* for a new species of Inga from the Culebra 

 formation of the Canal Zone is antedated by Inga oligocaenica 

 described by Engelhardtf in 1898 for a species from the Oligo- 

 cene of the Mittelgebirge in Bohemia. The Panama Oligocene 

 species may be called Inga- culebrana in allusion to both the hori- 

 zon and the locality. 



Edward W. Berry 



A New Form of Stanleya. — In the extreme western part of 

 Kansa,s there is a Stanleya v/hich agrees with none of those de- 

 scribed. It is nearest to vS. glaiica Rydberg, but the leaves are 

 much broader and the stem is not bluish green. Very possibly it 

 should be considered a distinct species, but at present we do not 

 know its exact status, and it seems better to regard it as a race 

 or subspecies of 6*. glauca. 



* Berry, E. W., Bull. U. S. Natl. Mus. 103: 32. pi. 16. f. 2. 1918. 

 t Engelhardt, H., Tertiaerfiora von Berand, 6i. pi. 4. f. I2. 1898. 



