July 7, 1909 ''■ 



SOME OF Dr. KELXOGG'S SPECIES 



By a. a. Heller 



Dr. Kellogg was one of the founders of the California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, and contributed many botanical articles to its 

 first series of Proceedings. The second volume especially is 

 replete with them, and while consulting this volume for descrip- 

 tions of plants originally collected in Nevada and described by 

 him, I became impressed with the fact that many of his species 

 were unjustly suppressed. In Zoe 4: 1, the statement is made 

 that "he published at various times during his residence, several 

 genera, two hundred and fifteen species, and several named vari- 

 eties. The lapse of time and better knowledge have left valid 

 less than sixty of these." 



While some of his descriptive terms are occasionally mis- 

 leading, Dr. Kellogg described his species remarkably well, and 

 in addition many of them were published with illustrations. It 

 seems to me that if thote who made such a wholesale reduction 

 of his species had used both their judgment and their eyes, the 

 botanists of to-day who have to deal with plants from the region 

 where Dr. Kellogg's types originated, would be in much less 

 danger of committing errors. Names that are put into syno- 

 nymy are apt to be overlooked, especially if one does not have 

 access to the original descriptions or the types, and more svno- 

 nyms, real ones, are liable to be made. 



I here present some of his species that undoubtedly must be 

 reinstated, and others about which more information is needed. 



Calliprora caurantea Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad. 2: 20. 1859. 



Calliprora scabra Greene, Erythea 3: 126. 1895. 



This was put down as a synonym of Brodiaea ixioides by 

 Watson in Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 238, and in Bull. Cal. Acad. 1: 

 148 by Mrs. Curran as probably "a stout form of Brodiaea grac- 

 ilis Watson." While Kellogg omitted some of the most im- 

 portant points about the floral structure, a comparison of his de- 

 scription with that of ( '. scabra Greene shows that tliey are un- 

 doubtedly the same, and the types of both came from the same 



