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The coast of Oregon is a great place for the occurrence of strange 
plants from far-away lands and this species from south Africa, 
adventive in Oregon, seems never to have been properly christened. 
CIRSIUM CALIFORNIcUM Gray, var. bernardinum (Greene), comb. 
nov. Carduus bernardinus Greene, Proc. Phil. Acad. 1892, 361 
(1893). Carduus californicus (Gray) Greene, var. bernardinus 
(Greene) Parish ex Hall, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. iii. 241 (1907). 
With many specimens of typical C. californicum before one it 
seems evident that the only character assigned to the above plant 
which is in any degree constant is the relatively small involuere 
with more appressed bracts. Even this character is variable, how- 
ever, so Parish’s disposition of the plant as a variety seems excel- 
lent. The variety is the prevailing form near the coast of San 
Diego county. Therefore, Mrs. Spencer’s no. 793, representing 
the typical state from Point Loma, San Diego, is of especial interest. 
VI. VARIOUS AMERICAN SPERMATOPHYTES, 
NEW OR TRANSFERRED 
Suaeda nigra (Raf.), comb. nov. Chenopodium nigrum Raf. 
Atl. Jour. i. 146 (1832). C. maritimum Torr. Ann. Lye. N.Y. ii 
239 (1828), not S. maritimum (L.) Dumort. 8S. diffusa Wats. Proc. 
Am. Acad. ix. 88 (1874). Dondia nigra (Raf.) Standley, N. Am. 
Fl. xxi. 89 (1916). 
In the course of determining certain specimens of Suaeda col- 
lected by Mrs. Spencer my attention has been called to the neces 
sity of taking up the above name for the species commonly known 
as S. diffusa. Standley makes the combination under Dondia, the 
first available generic name according to the rule of priority, but 
the name Suaeda is to be used since it is “ conserved ” in accord 
with the International Rules. 
ramulis foliisque glabris; foliorum petiolo brevi 3-4 mm. longo 
baccarum mediocriter gracilibus plerumque 4.5-5 em. lanes 4 
quandoque 2.5-3 em. longis. — Cotomst: flooded valley bs Po; 
Negro, Guaguaqui, Boyacd4, July 14, 1917, H. N. Whitford & ¥- 
Pinzon, no. 13 (typr, Gray Herb.). | 
