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9, New Catalogue.—A revised catalogue of the plants, native and na- 
turalized, within thirty-three miles of New-York, bas been tor some 
time in contemplation; but without the co-operation of those who 
herborize in all the different regions of our district, it must be neces- 
sarily incomplete. We wish those who know of observers, not yet 
in communication with the Club, would furnish us with their P. O. ad- 
dress. In orderto make the Catalogue more serviceable and authen- 
tic,it is desirable to have specimens of plants from all our districts 
preserved in a herbarium by themselves for reference, This herba- 
rium will at present be formed and kept at Dr. T. F, Allen’s, No. 8 
East 33d-street. Dr. Allen and Mr. P. V. Le Roy will act as cu- 
rators, and take charge of exchanges or contributions in this connec- 
tion. Itis estimated that about half the number of plants i: Gray’s 
Manual are to be found within our precincts. Some, which are sup- 
posed to have disappeared, or bave not been recently found, it 1s 
hoped may be re-discovered. Lepedium Draba, Clitoria Mariana, 
Corema Conradii, and Azolla Caroliniana, are among the number. 
The revised Catalogue should We accompanied with a map showing 
the formation of the districts and the plant distribution. 
 $. The Cnothera of Montauk Point, Long Island.—In July of this past 
summer I twice traveled the entire length of this remarkable point 
of land, exploring its Botany very carefully. 
Vegetation is very stunted except in a few sheltered spots. For 
about ten miles an Gfnothera is quite abundant, whose habit differs 
remarkably from any Gtnothera we have in this section. It has very 
numerous and large flowers, with widely-spreading petals, making 
the plant very conspicuous. 
It jies flat on the ground, its branches, which are covered with 4 
een of showy flowers, spreading in every direction. The plant 
has a perennial root, and very short, woody trunk; it seldom attains 
_ an elevation of two or three inches; the whole plant is roughened’ 
‘ith closely-appressed rigid hairs, which give the pods an almost 
hoary 2 ange The leaves are long and narrow, long-tapering 
at the base, and appear petiolate, though really sessile, and are 
slightly and x seca toothed. The pods have a long, tapering 
base, and an abrupt, club-shaped extremity, which is broadly four- 
_ winged at the sides, the wings either continuing to the very apex, 
or becoming smaller and almost obsolete at the apex. This mark 
_ I find depends upon the age of the pods; when young, the wings — 
_ seem very broad to the apex; when older, and filled out internally, 
the wings seem narrower at the apex. ae ° 
At East Hampton this form occurs in low, grassy places near the | 
: beach, sometimes strictly prostrate and hiddden in the grass ; some- 
_ times quite erect ; and in the low pines and oaks, half a mile from 
; ee ponees rsa “ ae Gh. fruticosa, and cannot be ; 
After comparison with za rt , a spreading: habit. 
"seer aca ar pee 8 ho: original specimen of . linearis, Var. B.. 
ecm y's Herbarium, the plant I gathered is found to be the 
sume. (Indeed, there is no other Génot, on Montauk Point that * 
ET could find.) Tt differs from the Southern @G Unease oor. 
from our own CE. fruticosa, : : 
