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any to know that he regarded it as practically finished, and was 
about to send the first installment of copy to the printer, Mr. A. A. 
Heller of Lancaster; and that it is understood his nephew, Dr. J. 
K. Small, will edit the work. 
Dr. Porter’s “Flora of Colorado” published as part of Hay- 
den’s Survey of the territories, was long the only hand-book for 
botanists in that region. A number of species have been named 
in his honor, as well as the genus Portere//a, so named by Dr. Gray. 
As a member of an excursion party his boundless enthusiasm 
became the life of the company. It is among the proudest memo- 
ries of a young botanist’s life to have been on such a trip with Dr. 
Porter. Although like most persons who are slow to make up their 
minds until they have the actual facts before them, he was very posi- 
tive in defending an opinion once formed, yet he gladly wel. 
comed any new fact from even the humblest source. Few will forget 
the intense pleasure his discovery in 1867 of Sedum Rhodiola on the 
face of cliffs two hundred feet above the Delaware River, gave to 
him as a proof of its glacial deposit there ages ago. 
With the passing away of Torrey, Engelmann, Gray, Chapman, 
Porter and other botanists, of the last generation, readily recalled 
an era in American botany closes. 
GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA. 
NOTES ON THE ERICACEAE OF NEW ENGLAND. 
WALTER DEANE. 
As two years have passed since the publication of the Preliminary 
List of New England Plants, — I, dealing with the Zricaceae (RHOo- 
DORA, I, pp. 93-94), it seems best to make such additions and cor- 
rections as will bring the List to date and represent our knowledge of 
the New England representatives of the family at the present time. 
The genera here, as in the list, are arranged alphabetically. 
Gaylussacia dumosa, Torr. & Gray. Through the kindness of Mr. 
A. A. Eaton I have received a specimen of this species collected by 
him at French's Pond, North Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1898, 
where it is “tolerably abundant." A cross can now mark this in my 
