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BOTANICAL GAZETTE 



strongly marked by its almost showy flowers and usually broader 

 leaves. 



Amsinckia Menziesii (Lehm.), n. comb. — Echium Menziesii 

 Lehm. Pug. 2:29. 1830; A. intermedia F. and M. Ind. Sem. Hort. 

 Petrop. 2:26. 1835. — Piper in Contrib. Nat. Herb. 11:480. 1906 

 cites under A. intermedia, "Eutoca Menziesii" etc., "not R. Br. 

 1823." However, Lehmann did not publish the species as a Eutoca 

 but as an Echium. Hence his name is five years earlier than that 

 of Fischer and Meyer's, and there is no earlier Menziesii in the 

 genus Amsinckia. This variable species should therefore bear the 

 name A . Menziesii according to both the American and the inter- 

 national rules of botanical nomenclature. It is possible that some 

 of the segregate species proposed rather recently are valid or at 

 least worthy of varietal rank. 



Allocarya Scouleri (H. and A.) Greene var. hirta (Greene), 

 n. comb. — A. hirta Greene, Pitt. 1:161. 1887. — Differs from the 

 species in being more or less setosely hispid, the leaves ciliate 

 with widely spreading hairs. It is represented in the Gray Her- 

 barium by Suksdorf's no. 45, Klickitat County, Washington, 

 May 26, 1881. 



Allocarya Cusickii Greene var. jucunda (Piper), n. comb. — 

 A. jucunda Piper, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 29:643. 1902. — In the 

 original description the leaves are said to be glabrous above, but they 

 vary in this respect as in the species. The shorter and relatively 

 broader leaves, together with the more bristly hirsute pubescence, 

 serve to distinguish the variety. The nutlets are essentially the 

 same. 



LAPPULA. — The following key and the accompanying notes 

 are given in the hope of helping to clear up the confusion that has 

 existed in regard to our annual species of Lappula. No one 

 apparently has ever made a serious effort to determine to what 

 plants the names in literature actually apply, and consequently 

 this section of the genus has reached a nearly chaotic condition. 



Nutlets not cupulate, the prickles distinct nearly or quite to the base 

 Prickles in two rows 



Nutlets 2 . 5-3 mm. long, the granulations on the face minute and even 

 1. L. echinata 



