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against priority, under these conditions, was sure to come. 

 The beginnings of it are already felt in more corners of the 

 earth than one. 



I am aware that, in the case of Downingia there is another 

 earlier name for the genus, that is, Gynampsis of Rafinesque. 

 But in respect to this, and a few other like instances, I shall 

 maintain that, when a botanical author makes a succession of 

 generic names for the same generic type, he has forfeited all 

 right to serious consideration in the matter of the nomen- 

 clature of such genus. 



Since the time of Torrey and of Lindley, when it was first 

 founded, the making of the genus Downingia has been mine 

 by individual discovery and first publication of almost all the 

 additional .species now known ; and I congratulate myself 

 that all except two of my own discoveries were published 

 under Downingia at the first. The two I here transfer. 



D. HUMiLis. Greene, Pitt. i. 226, under Bolelia. 



D. laeta. Greene, Erythea i. 238, under Bolelia. 



Miscellaneous Specific Types. — I. 



Claytonia chrysantha. Perennial, akin to C. lanceolata 

 but smaller and more slender : globose corm of the size of a 

 small pea, the whole plant barely 2 inches high, the pair of 

 lanceolate opposite leaves located above midway of the stem ; 

 raceme very lax, only 3 to 5-flowered, their pedicels greatly 

 elongated : corolla very large for the plant, nearly % inch 

 wide in expansion, deep-orange, the petals lightly obcordate : 

 capsule and seeds unknown. 



Moist sedgy southward slope of Mt. Baker, Washington, at 

 5,500 feet; collected by M. W. Gorman, 6 Aug. 1909 ; the 

 special locality being at the east side of the Deming Glacier. I 

 had a similar beautiful yellow-flowered plant from some place 

 in British Columbia, two years since, the specimens having 



