Additional notes on the genus Verbena. III

Notes on the genus Pileolaria (Pucciniales)

The results showed that Pileolaria terebinthi, type species of the genus Pileolaria is not a hemi–form or brachy–form rust species as mentioned among literature by several authors. Study on miscellaneous specimens collected from Iran and locus classicus of the species, France, revealed that P. terebinthi is an automacrocyclic rust and its aecial state is not uredinioi...

NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF THE GENUS EUPHORBIA IN IRAN

During the study on newly collected and herbarium specimens belonging to the genus Euphorbia, three species, namely, E. gorenfloti, E. cheirolepioides and E. splendida were found to be synonymous with E. chamaepeplus, E. grossheimii and E. decipiens, respectively. Euphorbia sahendi as an interesting and rare species has been recognized after long time again among my material and Euphorbia delto...

Some Additional Notes on the \princeton Robustness Year" Some Additional Notes on the \princeton Robustness Year"

About 25 years ago, Peter Bickel, Peter Huber and the author were invited to join John Tukey and spend the academic year 1970/71 at Princeton University in order to make a cooperative eeort for progress in robust statistics. What later was called the \Princeton robustness year," became widely known for its big Monte Carlo study of \robust location estimates under symmetric longtailed distributi...

Four new species of Andean Pilea (Urticaceae), with additional notes on the genus in Venezuela

Four new species of Pilea (Urticaceae) from the Andes of Venezuela are described and illustrated: Pileamatthewii sp. nov., Pileamiguelii sp. nov., Pileanicholasii sp. nov., and Pileanidiae sp. nov. The affinities of these species and their positions within the informal classifications of Pilea proposed by Weddell and Killip are discussed. Notes on other species of Pilea found in Venezuela also ...

Trout’s Notes on the Genus Desmodium