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in the United States on receipt of five cents for each.—8. Catalogue 
of Plants growing without cultivation in the State of New Jersey, 
with a Specific Description of all the Species of Violets found therein. 
Directions for Collecting &c. Suggestions to Teachers, &e. To which 
is added a Directory of living Botanists of Norh America and the West- 
Indies. By Oliver R. Willis. J. W. Schermerhorn & Co., 14 Bond 
street, N. Y. The Directory of Botanists is the Second Part of the 
Bulletin’s Directory, copied bodily, not even the supplementary 
corrections and additions which accompanied it being introduced, 
nor those which were added in a subsequent number, not even the 
important one of H. H. Babcock. We see that Mr. Willis has 
obtained a copyright for his Catalogue, including our Directory, 
which is not the least valuable part of it. We find it hard to un- 
derstand this obliviousness of the rights of others. 
As for the Catalogue itself, it is strange, in view of the pro- 
fessions in the introduction, that the author should seriously 
attempt a list of New Jersey plants, and not consult so read- 
“ily accessible sources of information as Gray’s Manual and the 
Bulletin of the Botanical Club. Yet many plants native to New 
Jersey are entirely ignored by him, Cawlophyllum, Polanisia, Rham- 
nus, Frangula, Eclipta, Lechea Nova-Coesarew, Pogonia divaricata, 
for example; and, in his own favorite genus, Viola rotundifoha and 
V. rostrata. We prefer not to dwell on the imperfections and faults 
of the work. Mr. Willis’s contributions to the Flora of the State 
of New York lead us to expect better things. There area number — 
of interesting localities contributed by Mr. Canby, Prof. Porter, 
Dr. Knighton, and others. : 
$97. Dr. Chapman’s Herbarium.—We are informed that Dr. 
Chapman is desirous of disposing of his Herbarium. It must be 
valuable as containing the types of the new species described in 
his “Flora of the Southern United States,” and as being rich in 
Southern plants generally, now so difficult to obtain. His address 
is Apalachicola, Florida. 
s CYPERACEA, 
‘CYPERUS L.—C. flavescens, L.; Borders of salt marshes and in- 
bog meadows, Jorr. Cat.; Long Hill and Chatham, N. J., W. HZ L. 
—C. diandrus, Torr.; “In salt marshes, Hoboken,” -Zorr. Cat. ; 
frequent where water is brackish, State Flora: Var. castaneus, Tort. 3° 
more common in the interior of the State, State Flora. Dr. Tor- 
rey in his Catalogue, 1819, p. 90, says of his new species, that it 18° 
rarer than C. Jlavescens, but not uncommon in Hoboken meadows, 
generally in overflowed situations. We find the var. castaneus in 
all directions around New York, and some rather bleached looking 
specimens from muddy or “overflowed” situations, but doubt the 
existence of any valid distinction. between the type and variety. 
.If C. diandrus is more than an American variety of C. flavescens, — 
Terms—One Dollar per annum beginning w.th the Ji poche ae ; ; 
es : Directory alone, 30 cents. Back tole nad tie hand. ~ cues 
The Clud will have no regular place of Meeting this Summer, while the Herbarium is trans- 
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