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Mr. Miller finds Plantayo pusilla, Nutt., almost as common asP,, 
Virginica, L.; Asclepias purpurascens, L.; Botrychium simplex 
Hitchcock, quite abundant; Cunila Mariana, L.; Scirpus poly- 
phylius, Vahl. ; S. fluviatilis, Gray; and S. Olneyi, Gray. 
§ 43. Larix again.—Mr. Hall noticed, in August, Larches in Cen- 
tral Park that had put forth new leaves and now and then a new 
cone. 
= 44. Aspidium fragrans, Swartz.—We have received from Mr. 
Charles H. Peck beautiful specimens of this fern, from Lake 
Avalanche in the Adirondacks. Mr. Peck remarks, with a con- 
scientiousness which we earnestly hope other collectors will lay to 
heart, “It is not plenty there, and I was careful not to exhaust the 
locality, so obtained but few.” Mr. Robinson, of Salem, Mass., 
points out a probable error in Vol. IIL, No. 2, of the Butierin, 
where Bellows Falls, N. H., is given as a locality. He says: “I 
have specimens from Alpine Cascade, near Berlin Falls, N. H., and 
also Woodsia glabella, R. Brown, trom the same place. Ifound 4, 
Jragrans at Crystal Cascade, near the Glen House, August, 1865.” 
$45. Herbarium for Sale.—Dr. K. Keck, Schloss Friedegg, 
Schwertberg, Upper Austria, writes us that he is the owner of a 
very rich Herbarium, which he has concluded to sell. He states 
that it comprehends the Flora of the whole of Europe in rare com- 
pleteness, and fourtéen or fifteen thousand of the rarest species of 
Asia (particularly from the Russian provinces), of Africa and of 
New Holland, all, mounted and arranged after Endlicher. In all 
rather more than less than 100,000 specimens, of 19,000 species. He 
sends us a long list uf the special collections (in nearly every part 
of the world), from which his herbarium is derived; among them 
we notice the names of our own Canby and Wright, and he calls 
particular attention to the collection 6f Ledebour in the north of 
Asia, and of Sieber in the West Indies, New Holland and elsewhere. 
Dr. Keck also sends us, as a fair specimen of the richness of his 
collection, the names of about two hundred species of Astragalus, 
about eighty species of Panicum, and nearly eighty of Polypodium. 
He values the whole at $6,000, or $6 per hundred specimens. 
_ We cheerfully comply with his request in calling the attention 
of the managers of our public institutions to this opportunity © 
securing avery valuable Herbarium. Of course, impartial testi- 
mony would have to be ‘obtained from Europe. We will gladly 
show his letter and lists to those interested, 
$ 46. Strangers—Just north of the Hyde Park Station of the 
Hudson River R. R., we found, early in September, Rudbeckia 
triloba, I.., but the lower leaves were very slightly lobed, and Galium 
Mollugo, 1.., which is heretotore reported only from Washington 
Heights, New York Island. Between Poughkeepsie and the High- 
lands Lythrum Salicaria, L., abounds. We did not notice it below 
the Highlands, though we have been told that it occurs there. 
8 47. New Publications.— We have received: 1. John Torrey: 
_ Biographical Notice, [from the American Journal of Science and 
Arts, Vol. IV., June, 1873], By A. Gray.—2. Notes on the Genus 
Yucea. By George Englemann, M.'D., [Transactions of the 
“Academy of Science of St. Louis. ]—3. Deseriptions of New Species 
