374 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
thoroughly qualified for their task. Mr. Wooton was for twenty 
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years, and Mr. Standley for three, oo ith the New Mexico 
College of Agriculture, and bo made extensive aie 
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to the frvilicn; ¢ getiens and species, the genera alone ‘being fully 
The “ type lity,’ so far as possible, is given for each species, 
with its ae range and its di gees in the State, and 
useful notes on individual species are sometimes adde 
The nomenclature follows the lines referred o in our 5 hank t issue 
(p. 335, top); in this as in other respects—e.g. in the non-use of 
Y Wieck supersedes ‘ - 1a iolowaare 
Para: Fi. ae Sept. 575, 1814.” On this oe be noted that 
Nuttall’s name was never published in souhadlen with Fraser’s 
Catalogue, although Dr. KE. L. Greene has eigen seri (Pit- 
tonia ii. 114) to show that he was its auth over, as was 
ationtix in this mM cia ae 482), the Catalogue sat be cited as 
‘Frasers’ ’ ing describes the p ants—as “for sale at 
Messrs. ‘ivaant's Riise . . . 1813”—a date at which the 
of print ’ e species is followed by “ 
columnifera nuaNesine (DC.) Woot. & Standl.” based on 
Obeliscaria pulcherrima DC. which Don placed as a variety of 
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columnaris: this the authors say “is a m he 
type, and hardly deserves a name.” ive it a ne, 
tho they proceed: ‘Both forms almost invariably occur 
brow : 
oe "yurinalon in en lor pee be in R. tagetes, but since that has 
ery small and inconspicuous rays no one has yet thought to 
distinguish the various forms by name” (p. 706). We note also 
