BULGE TIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Vol. 1l.] New-York, January,1871. (No.1. 
1, The Bulletin—The present number commences the second year 
of our publication. The interest shown in it augurs well for the 
future. Thanks to its friends, (some warm ones outside of the 
club, ) it will not fall very far short of paying expenses. When there 
isa permanent fund of from three to five thousand dollars establish- 
ed for it, as we count there will be some day, it will be ensured a 
permanency, and the size may be doubled at half the cost to sub- 
scribers. Meanwhile, it will be continued at the present rates. 
The subscription for 1871 is now due. 
2. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for June, 1870, 
Dr. Gray’s Botanical Contributions contain much to interest 
those who study the flora of the region embraced in his Manual. 
_ The first paper is a “ Reconstruction of the Order Diapensiacex ;” 
_ In which he groups together, Pyxidanthera, Michx.; Diapensia, L.; 
Shortia, Torr. & Gray; and Galaz, L. 
The second is a “Revision of the North American Polemo- 
niacee.” The name Phlox ovata, L., is resumed instead of P. Ca- 
rolina, L.; and var. nitida, Benth., (P. nitida, Pursh) is transferred 
to P, glaberrima, L. P. procumbens, of the Manual, becomes P, amoena, 
Sims. P, Stellaria, Gray, is a new species “found only by the late 
Dr. Short, May Ist, 1829, on the cliffs of Kentucky River.” 
The third paper is a colleetion of “ Miscellanea.” Dr. Gray con- 
cludes that the American forms heretofore ranked by him under | 
Lycopus Europeus, L., are distinct; hence the var. becomes the 
species [,, sessilifolins, Gray; the var. integrifolins, L. rabellus, Moench; 
the var., L. sinuatus, Ell. L. Europeus, L., has been gathered near _ 
Norfolk, Va., and Philadelphia. 
‘Viola renifolia, Gray, a new species, found by Mr. Paine in Oneida 
Co.,and by others in other northern localities, grows “in company 
with V. blanda, which it closely resembles as to the flower, but the 
leaves are more like those of V. palustris ; yet they are more strictly 
uniform, and are conspicuously beset with pale, soft and tender, 
lax hairs.” oe 
Desmodium {llinoiense, Gray, between D. rigidum, and D. canescens ; 
and Polygonum Hartwrightii, Gray, ‘“sedgy bogs, New York, from 
Herkimer to Yates Co., and Michigan,” liable to be mistaken for 
P. amphilnum, or P. Carey ; are new species. 
We presume that students of the Manual will soon be supplied 
with the requisite particulars about these interesting changes and 
discoveries. 
