Il. NEW, RECLASSIFIED, OR OTHERWISE NOTEWORTHY 
SPERMATOPHYTES. 
By B. L. Rosrnson. 
CLEOME ACULEATA L. Syst. ed. 12, iii. 232 (1768). To the synonymy 
of this species should be added C. sinaloensis Brandegee, Zoe, v. 198 
(1905). Authentic material of the latter, now in the Gray Herbarium, 
appears to agree in all features with South American specimens of C. 
aculeata LL. The species has also been found elsewhere in Mexico, in 
Guatemala (Deam, no. 349), and in Honduras (Thieme, no. 5135 of 
J. D. Smith’s distrib.). It thus seems to be an annual weed of rather 
wide distribution in tropical and subtropical America. The species 
Was originally described by Linnaeus from American material and has 
been generally regarded as exclusively of this continent, but it is diffi- 
cult to find a single character on which to separate from it the West 
African C. ciliata Schum. & Thonn. Besk. Guin. Pl. ii. 68 (1828) 
and C. guineensis Hook. f. in Hook. Nig. Fl. 218 (1849). 
C. Fischeri, nom. nov. C. serrulata Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xiv. 
293 (1892), not Pursh, Fl. Bor. Am. ii. 441 (1814). Pursh’s homonym, 
rejected by Dr. Gray and by many other botanists owing to its in- 
appropriate and undescriptive character, is now being re-established 
according to the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature. 
Consequently the later homonym of Pax must be renamed. 
The next three new combinations, found necessary during recent 
work of Mr. George Safford Torrey, temporary assistant at the Gray 
Herbarium, are here published at Mr. Torrey’s request. 
Hosackta americana (Nutt.) Piper, var. glabra (Nutt.) G. S. 
Torrey, comb. nov. H. elata, B. glabra Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. 
Am. i. 327 (1838). 
PrrIQUETA CAROLINIANA (Walt.) Urb., var. viridis (Small) G. S. 
Torrey, comb. noy. P. viridis Small, Fl. S. E. U. S. 794, 1335 (1903). 
Distinguished from varieties of the variable P. caroliniana merely by 
the degree of pubescence, and possessing no distinctive habitat or 
Seographical range, this form seems hardly worthy of specific rank. 
Lyonia fruticosa (Michx.) G. S. Torrey, comb. nov. Andromeda 
Serruginea B. fruticosa Michx. Fl. Am. Bor. i. 252 (1803). A. ferruginea 
Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i. 292 (1814), not A. ferruginea Walt. Fl. Car. 
