566 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
V. PanicuLata, Heller, Cat. N. Am. Pl. 8, not Poir., is Actinome- 
ris alba, Torr. & Gray. 
V. PERsIciFroLia, Klatt, Leopoldina, xx. 93, not DC., is V. virgata, 
Cir 
V. PINNATIFIDA, Gray in Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 428 (Palmer’s 
, ho. 698 from Jalisco), certainly not of Cay., is probably sterile Montanoa 
grandifiora, Sch. Bip. 
V. PODOCEPHALA, Gray, Pl. Wright. ii. dec is Zexmenia ponlocge nee 
Gray, Syn. Fl. i. pt. 2, 286. 
V. Sartoru, Sch. Bip. in Klatt, 1. c. xxiii. 148, is V. olivacea, Klatt. 
V. scanpENns, Klatt, Leopoldina, xxv. 106, is acc. to Klatt, Ann. 
Natur. Hofmus. Wien, ix. 3862, Salmea Hupatoria, L. 
V. tomentosa, DC. Prodr. v. 614, imperfectly described and without 
exact locality, may be doubtfully referred to V. sublobata, Benth. 
V. TRIDENTATA, Spreng. 1. c. 577, is Aspilia buphthalmiflora, Griseb. 
VY. TuBeRosa, Klatt, Ann. Natur. Hofmus. Wien, ix. 361, is Zex- 
menia aurea, Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. ii, 373 (Wedelia? aurea, D. 
Don, Bot. Mag. t. 3384; Verbesina aurea, DC. Prodr. v. 613) 
III.—SOME NEW SPECIES, EXTENDED RANGES, AND 
NEWLY NOTED IDENTITIES AMONG THE MEXI- 
CAN PHANEROGAMS. 
By J. M. Greenman. 
Eleocharis aciculariformis, Perennial: rhizomes dark brown, 
creeping, rather stout, freely branched; culms 5 to 8 cm. high, tufted at 
the nodes of the rhizome, vaginate at the base: sheaths reddish-brown 
below, hyaline above: spikes elliptic-ovate, 4 to 6 mm. long, about 12- 
flowered; scales ovate, obtuse, somewhat compressed, green on the back 
with reddish-brown sides and scarious margins: setw 3, a little over 
1 mm. in length: achenes oblong-obovate, about 1 mm. long, rather ab- 
-ruptly narrowed at the summit, longitudinally ribbed, and transversely 
striated: tubercle about one third as broad as the achene, — Collected by 
C. G. Pringle in the Valley of Mexico, Federal District, 7 May, 1898, 
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