
4 ROBINSON, 

















recognition as new to science, while others show no 
of plants not secured for many decades. 
As has been the case in the preparation of cieilll 
relating to the Lupatorium tribe, much valued aid has 
from the New York Botanical Garden, the United Sta 
Herbarium, and the Field Museum of Natural i 
establishments having lent for examination highly inte 
which has formed the basis of many of the observaliaal 
In elaborating the Peruvian species much aid 
material borrowed from the Royal Gardens at Kew and 
siderable suite of specimens collected by Dr. A. W uc 
some years ago no the Royal Botanical Museum in bate 

and identificatio 
rrot; ¥. Pittier has kindly called to the writer's @ 
geographical errors in the paper on the Ve lan i 
Among these are the employment of several 
orn place-names, and several orthographical slips 
tted, are happily not of a kind likely to cause 
iveatestatiting. More annoying, however, in this 
writer’s not unnatural but entirely erroneous identifica 
the base of much of Fendler’s Venezuelan work, is a smal © 
very distant from Caracas and situated in the mountains 
back from the coast in the northern part of the state of A 7 
Tovar was unfortunately not ners on the maps cor 
A few notes, diagnoses, and ‘ueatel are here ublis 
other Compositae which, mostly on account of habital 
been submitted for identification in connection with these 
the Eupatoriums oe 
The abbreviations employed in the present pu 
the different botanical establishments are the s 
papers, those of most frequent occurrence being a5 
Natural History, Chicago; K., the herbarium of the | . 
Gardens, Kew; Brit. Mus., the British Museum of Natu 
South Kensington, London; Par., the Muséum d’ 
Jardin des plantes, Paris; DC., the * ‘Prodromus © 
