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So far as is evident from the treatment in the North American 
Flora neither the above specific nor varietal names have been pub- 
lished. If one may judge from the general style adopted in this 
work in other groups the intent seems to be to give complete 
synonymy. Nevertheless, for some reason not at all apparent 
(unless it be a policy to suppress so far as possible the name Actinea) 
none of the combinations made by Kuntze are cited although he 
transferred in his Rev. Gen. Pl. i. 303 (1891) most of the species 
formerly included in Actinella. 
Rydberg places seven species between A. scaposa and the var. 
linearis in which he sees, moreover, no fewer than four species, viz., 
‘T. angustifolia, T. fastigiata, T. angustata and T. linearis. Gray 
included these in the var. linearis and remarked, Syn. FI. i?. 345, 
“ broader leaved and dwarfer forms very like glabrate A. acaulis,” 
i.e. the var. simplex and some poor meagre material of the latter was 
actually referred to A. scaposa, var. linearis by Gray. These species 
are in general easily distinguished, however, by the character of the 
caudex. But I can see no constancy in the caudex-characters used 
by Greene and Rydberg to segregate the var. linearis into four 
species as these characters seem to depend largely upon age as a 
factor for their development. For instance T. fastigiata Greene is 
separated from 7’. linearis (Nutt.) Greene because its caudex is 
“branched underground ” rather than above. In the Gray Her- 
barium Eggert’s specimen from Big Spring, Texas is named by 
Rydberg 7. linearis while Hitchcock’s no. 290 from Kansas is 
referred to 7’. fastigiata. The latter sheet contains three plants, 
one of them with a branched caudex clothed with dead leaf-bases 
and is a close match for the Texan plant. The other two plants 
are similar but without elongate branches to the caudex simply no 
doubt because they are younger and have not had time to develop 
these as is shown by the fewer rows of leaf-bases left from the 
growth of former years. 7. angustifolia Rydb. is an intermediate 
state between typical A. scaposa and the variety linearis. Rydberg 
distinguishes it from the three other segregates by the key-char- 
acter “Bases of the leaves not wider than the oblanceolate or 
almost linear blades; branches of the caudex short and stout.” 
By actual measurement the leaf-bases of Wooton’s no. 374 from 
the White Mts. of New Mexico (co-type material of T. angusti- 
folia) are nearly 5 mm. wide, the widest leaf-blades 3.5 mm. wide. 
