498 NOTES ON XYRIS. 
i. 23 (1803); and X. fleawosa Muhl. Cat. Pl. Amer. Sept. 5 (1813). 
The last named is practically a nomen nudum, and the other two are 
so briefly and inadequately described as to render their identity 
doubtful. : Senate © Walter’s species is not contained in his 
herbarium, no n the British Museum. The identity of all three 
species Decetore remains doubtful. From the first they seem to 
have been confused by American botanists. Elliott, in his Botany 
of South Carolina (i. 51, 1816), makes X. caroliniana Walt. and 
X. jlecwosa Muhl. synonymous, as also Barton in FI. Philadelph. 
i. 1818), and Darlington, Flora Cestrica, 12 (1887). Torrey 
oly North & Middle Sect. U.S. i. 40 [1824]), cites X. Jupicai 
Mich., X. -3 XUOSA Eil., and the X. foliis gladiatis Gronov. as 
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p. 14), to which are re oe specimens solapiait by Beyrich in 
ia a and two named X. caroliniana in Herb. Willdenow 
X, flexuosa Mubl. figures with a@ query as a syno we of X. caro- 
liniana Walt, (p. 11), and a new species, X. bulbosa (p. 11), is 
described closely allied to the ee Gray (Man. Bot. 518 [1848] ) 
keeps up X. bulbosa Kunth with X. Jupicai in part, X. indica Pursh 
and X. Pwisiea Muhl. as paedage ; ee caroliniana Walt., of 
the middle of the keel. The distinctions between the three ene 
oar ter clearly indicated by Gray, have been retained in la 
American floras, with the names adopted by him: X. Herwoe 
Mubl., en lateral sepals finely ciliate on the narrow wingless 
keel, and having a small apical tuft; X. caroliniana, with lateral 
sepals obscurely need above on ‘the winged eel; an 
“* Review of the N. ‘ ree can Species of the eee Xyris” in Bull. 
Torr. Bot. Club, xix. 35 son) * ad: Britton & Brown, in their recent 
Illustrated Flora of the Northern States (PP. — 370), where the 
descriptions are oe with good figu Nilsson also has 
consensus of oping, ‘rather than the result of an examination of 
be original specimens, which nobody seems to ase seen. of 
* It seems desirable to enter a protest against the wholesale citation of 
unpublished names as synonyms; associated with the fourteen species which are 
retained, no fewer than ten MS. names are here quoted, mostly from Chapman’s 
bari Such citations are absolutely useless, and seriously encumber 
synonymy. 
