324 LEAFLETS. 



The Qenus Batanthes. 



This, as set forth by Eafinesque in the Atlantic Journal, p. 

 145, is not a genus, but an aggregate of three. My own usage 

 in such cases, however, has been that of those who hold that the 

 name of a genus stands or falls with that of the first species 

 enumerated under it, unless the character given excludes such 

 first species and points to one of the others as having been the 

 author's type species. In the present instance the character is 

 equally that of all three of the included species. One must, 

 then, either suppress the name Batanthes, or else support it 

 for that genus of which Gantua aggregata of Pursh is the oldest 

 type. This will reduce to synonymy Oallisteris, of page 159 

 preceding, the known species of which may take names as fol- 

 lows under Batanthes. 



■ B. AGGREGATA, Eaf ., Atl. Joum., 145, Cantua aggregata, Pursh; 

 probably not Callisteris aggregata, Greene, Leafl., I, 159, for Mr. 

 C. V. Piper, who has given careful attention to the localities of 

 many of Pursh's types, tells me it is certain that Gantua aggre- 

 gata came from the Pacific slope of the continent. 



B. SCOPULOETJM. GalUsteris aggregata, Greene, 1. c. excl. syn. 



B. COLLINA. Greene, 1. c. under GalUsteris. 



B. LEUCANTHA. " " " 



B. ATTENTJATA. " " " 



B. FOBMOSISSIMA. " " " 



B. FLAVIDA. « « « 



B. Texana. " " " 



B. Aeizonica. « « " 



B. Bkidgesii. « " « 



B. PULCHELLA. « " « 



Four Stveptanthoid Qenera. 



This is a continuation of studies published in part on pages 81 

 to 90 preceding. In those paragraphs only the Californian strep- 

 tanthoid types are dealt with. All the genera now proposed 



