Vol. IV, No. 12.] BUutLeTin oF THE TORREY BoTANicat Cius. [New York, Dec. 1873. 
§ 61. The Bulletin The next number will begin the fifth volume 
of our little publication. “When that volume closes we purpose 
issuing an index to the five volumes, so that that portion may be 
bound. Our subscribers will confer a favor by remitting 12 cents 
for postage, it being very inconvenient to send our unpaid mail to 
the general office. For the same reason station D is preferable for 
money orders. , 
We take this occasion to reiterate our hope that some of the 
more wealthy friends of science, to secure the permanency of the . 
ae will endow it with a publishing fund of three thousand 
ollars, 
~ § 62. The Botanical Directory.—We tender our sincere thanks to 
the many friends of the undertaking, who have, by their emenda- 
tions and suggestions, enabled us to give a much better list of the 
active botanists of this part of the world than has yet appeared. 
We have considerably more than doubled the number in the Salem 
Directory, published some years since. Our list was based on that, 
and Mr. Putnam most kindly seconded our project. Some of the 
old names we have not been able to verify, but all the new ones, 
we are assured, are those of persons really interested in some branch 
of the science. 
_ It has occurred to us that it would be well in the next edition to 
append a list of considerable general and special herbaria and libra- 
ries, to facilitate references in our wide territory. We solicit con- 
tributions of information on these heads, as well as corrections and 
additions for the Directory proper. 
§ 63. Elliottia racemosa, Muhl.—At the meeting of the Club, 
October 28, specimens of iliottia were distributed. These speci- 
mens were collected by Mr. P. J. Berckmans, who has discovered a 
fine locality for the plant not far from bis residence near Augusta, 
Georgia. “As the fruit of Hihottia is still undescribed, Mr. Berck- 
mans was requested to procure specimens if possible. He writes, 
on one of the last days of October, thet some of the plants are still 
in flower, but that no vestige of fruit of any kind is to be found, 
The plant, through the kindness of Mr. Berckmans, will soon be in 
cultivation, and then we may be able to discover to what this lack 
of fructification is due. : q. T 
$64. New Publications, 1. Prodromi Systematis Natura- 
lis Vegetabilium, Historia, Numeri, Conelusio, by Alphonso De 
Candolle (from the last vol. of the Prodromus), Paris, 1873.——2. 
Reflexions sur les Ouvrages Generaux de Botanique Descriptive, 
by the same, Geneva, 1873. The former of these pamphlets, as its 
name implies, is a brief account of the history of the Prodromus, 
of the share of the various contributors to the work, and an enu- 
meration of the genera (5134, Composit. 911), and species (58975- 
Composit. 8561) described, a large proportion being newly deter- 
mined in this great work of three generations. It was begun by 
Augustin Pyramus De Candolle, who published the first vol. in 
1818. The elder De Candolle died in 1841. His son Alpbonso 
carried on the work, with the assistance, as before, of other botan- 
ists, among whom was his son Casimir. Tiis year (1873) the last 
(XVIIth) vol. was published, the whole embracing, after all, only 
