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more happy recipient of this bronze token than our friend Durand 
During his career he accumulated an herbarium which, though not 
remarkably large, was of great value. It probably contained a 
more complete set of Nuttall’s collections than any other, not ex- 
cepting the herbarium of the Academy. In 1868 he carried out 
his long cherished intention of depositing this herbarinm in the 
Paris Museum, and made a voyage to France almost solely for that 
purpose. We regret that our friend had not sufficient American 
feeling to allow his herbarium to remain in the country where it 
would be most useful. In his will he direeied that specimens he 
had accumulated since 1868 should be incorporated with the main 
collection. His botanical library he directed to be deposited in the 
herbarium room of the Academy, where it can be available for the 
working botanists, who have heretofore been obliged to go to the 
general library for works of reference. : 
Mr. Durand was personally an exceedingly courteous and genial 
gentleman, who probably did as much for botany by the encourage- 
ment he gave others, as by any direct contributions he made 
himself. 
§ 55. New Species of Fungi, by W. R. Gerarv. No. L. 
Ecidium Nesx2x, ». sp.—Spermogonia.—Spermogonia situated 
on a thickened yellowish spot, on the upper surface of. the leaves, 
opposite the clusters of peridia. _Protospores.—Perithecia densely 
aggregated, seated on a greatly thickened subiculum, either in cir- 
cinating or elongated clusters; spores orange yellow, .0007° in 
diameter. 
On leaves and stems of Neswa verticillata, greatly distorting 
them. Where it attacks the stems it forms large gall-like excres- 
cences, from one to three inches in length, and about three-quarters 
of an inch thick, variously twisting the stems and very often bend- 
ing them nearly double; on these excrescences the peridia are 
closely arranged in parallel lines—Poughkeepsie, Aug.—Oct. 
Trichobasis Hyperici, x. sy.—Sori roundish, minute, reddish- 
brown, surrounded by the ruptured epidermis; scattered exten- 
sively over both surfaces of the leaf. Spores brown, ovoid, rugose ; 
001" long. : 
On both surfaces of leaves of Hypericum eorymbosum. It is 
probable that this is the primary form of Uromyces Hyperici. Schw. — 
—Poughkeepsie, August andSeptember. __ 
Sphzropsis Averyana, n. sp.—Epiphyllous ; spots dark-brown, 
perithecia circinating, each nantes on a dense white mycelium ; 
Spores rod-shaped, hyaline, .0002 long. 
oa leaves Pr Hishapiia Aethiopicu, in the fernery of Dr. Avery 
of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, July. : ; : 
Discosa maculaecola, 2. sp.—Spots orbicular, white, circum- 
scribed by a dark brown line. Perithecia flattened, rugose-plicate, 
sometimes scattered over the spots, but oftener seated near the cir- 
cumference. Spores 3-septate, obliquely aristate at each extremity ; 
'.0006 long. 
On the upper surface of living leaves of Smilax rotundifolia. 
