39. 
In taking the name of Torrey for our Club we assumed a pledge, 
implied if not expressed, to bear ourselves worthily, The name of 
Torrey should be as a sacred trust. How can we best honor it? 
Could he have spoken a last word to us it would not be that we 
should remember him by any honors to himself, but he would have 
asked the Club to keep alive the love for the science which he loved 
so much and for which he did.so much, That we should follow 
science, as he did, with no self-seeking, but to set forth God’s truth 
alone. That we should, as he did, do all in our power to lift up 
and encourage young and struggling disciples. He would say, 
‘Listen to the great Teacher who said, ‘Consider the lillies of the 
field’ and follow him,” but he was too humble to add what we can 
say—as he did, 
§ 35. Nymphzea odorata, Ait. Rose-flowered variety.—|We 
think that the remarks in Gray’s Manual cover nearly all the 
variations mentioned in the following note, except those of WN. 
tuberosa, Paine, In the Pines we have found the so-called variety 
minor to prevail. The note is nevertheless worthy of record. ] 
Under the impression that some old number of the BuLLeTin 
contained an account of the rose or purple flowered variety of 
Nymphea odorata, 1 found, on search, nothing further than § 66, 
in No. 10 of Vol. IL, by “D.S. M.,” mention of “quite small 
flowers. . . . , white within, but the outer petals and the 
sepals richly tinged with rose-color.” I have never supposed that 
the marks stated by D. 8. M. were sufficient to constitute, or to 
identify the rose-colored variety of N. odorata. If so, I can testify 
from personal knowledge that the variety 1s very common indeed, 
and also, that it is somewhat variable; 7. ¢., varying into white 
again, and, therefore, hardly a variety. For one instance out of 
many, about three or four weeks ago, I obtained from the “ Goose 
Pond,” in Jamaica, L, L., about thirty flowers, of “ very choice and 
delicate perfume,” and the “ outer’ petals and the sepals richly 
tinged with rose-color,’ but the flowers were quite large. The 
rose-color was very decided and bright. I have repeatedly seen 
the same thing in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode 
Island; Connecticut, the ponds in W. New York, and in the New 
Jersey Pines ; but usually the rose-color is about the color that a 
flower of Trillium grandiflorum takes on before fading—a decided 
and rich rose, but not extremely deep. I know of a atch in the 
Owasco outlet, on the edge of the city of Auburn, where I have 
Been the flowers some years pure white with green on the sepals, 
and sometimes with he rose tinge. Once, crossing from Lake 
George to Ticonderoga, a boy brought to the stage for sale a 
bunch of which two flowers had each two rows of rosy petals, 
their other petals, as well as the other flowers, being quite white. 
Paine’s Nymphca tuberosa, also, (which is remarkabie for its ob- 
_ tuser catia” aad their clear white color, maintained pure, without 
any transparency along the petal edges, until it meets the green of 
the sepals) I have now and then found with a rosy color on the in- 
