The West American Scientist. 



Vol. I. San Diego, Calif., September, 1885. No. 9- 



BOTANICAL SUMMARY FOR 1885. 



The past season has been productive of few discoveries in S. 

 California and the collections that have been made are poor and 

 not comparable to those of the previous year. 



The most extensive collection was that made by Rev. E. L. 

 Greene in April on the coast of Lower California and the adjacent 

 islands of Guadaloupe and Cedros, containing about thirty new 

 species which are described by the collector in a Bulletin of the 

 Calif. Academy of Sciences, No. 4, issued Aug. 29. 



In this and the preceding bulletin, No. 3, Mr. Greene makes the 

 following changes in the botanical nomenclatnre of the plants of 

 this vicinity: 



Of the California poppies he makes several species, limiting 

 the name, Eschscholtzia Californica, Cham., to a perennial plant, 

 abundant near San Francisco; naming the common form around 

 San Diego as E. peninsularis; a more robust annual as E. Mexi- 

 icana and still another from San Jacinto mountain in this county 

 as E. Parishii. 



The following new genera are described or reinstated: 



Heterodraba, type, Draba unilateralis, M. E. J. 



Athysanus, " Thysanocarpus pusillus, Hook. 



Bebbia, " Carphephorus junceus, Bth. 



Mimetanthe, " Mimulus pilosa, Watson. 



Diplacus (Nuttall); three species are given as found in this 

 region — D. puniceus (Mimulus glutinosus var. puniceus of Gray), 

 D. leptanthus and D. longiflorus — that were originally so named 

 by Nuttall and a fourth is described from Low. California as D. 

 arachnoides, n. sp. 



Another section of Mimulus, Eunanus, is given generic rank. 



Eucrypta. a section of Ellisia, is also promoted, on account of 

 the discovery of Nuttall' s second species, E. paniculata, among 

 the hills of the peninsula. 



Ceanot|ius verrucosus, Nutt. is re-established (this is the com- 

 mon white-flowered shrub, distributed as C. cuneatus). 



Mimulus luteus, L. is said to be South American and our plant 

 is referred to M. guttatus, DC. 



Mimulus nasutus, Greene, a well marked new species, abundant 



