Vol. VI, No. 8.] | BULLETIN oF THE TorREY Boranicat Cius. [New York, Aug., 1875. 
* DC,; and Borrichia frutescens, DC., were other Composites, but the 
White Daisy, (Leucanthemum) and May-weed (Maruta) were scarce ; 
indeed, I am not sure that I saw a single piece of the former, which 
also, a year or two since, had not reached Chicago. I was rather 
surprised to meet with Athea officinalis, L., by the roadside. Sida 
spinosa, L., and Symphoricarpus pulgaris, Mchx., were abundant 
in certain localities. Passiflora lutea, L., with Vitis vulpina, L., V. 
cordifolia, Mchx., and V. ewstivalis, Mchx., were frequent climbers. 
I noticed among Cyperacew, Eleocharis rostellata, Torr., EF. 
tricostata, Torr., and, among grasses, Arundinaria tecta, Muhl., 
Panicum viscidum, Ell., and Tripsacum dactylvides, L., and the 
rarity of good meadow grass. Of ferns I saw nothing peculiar but 
their scarcity. The constant dampness of the weather limited my 
opportunities and spoiled my specimens. 
¢ 40, Cydonia Japonica.—At a meeting of the Botanical Club, 
some months since, some jelly was exhibited that was made 
from the Cydonia Japonica, or Japan Quince. It was also eaten 
freely at the collation after the business meeting, and pronounced. 
excellent by all the members of the club then present. It much re- 
sembles our ordinary quince jelly, but has a different flavor, and a 
not unpleasant astringency. The fruit also makes excellent pre- 
serves. Mrs. S. H. Lewis, who made the above-mentioned jelly, 
furnishes the following recipe, which doubtless the club may wish 
to profit by: Boil the fruit in very little water till it is tender; lay 
this upon a sieve to drain. Make syrup of juice, two pounds sugar 
to one pint. Boil tillclear, and skim it. For preserves, when the 
syrup has been boiled clear, drop in fruit, and boil very slowly for 
twenty or thirty minutes. : : Bie i « # 
§ 41. Chester County Botanists.—|The following article was front 
the pen of the late Dr. Wm. Darlington, and was published in the 
Village Record, in 1857. 5 2 BE i eg 
Chester county has produced five botanists, who have been hon- 
ored by having each a genus or species of plants named in compli- 
ment to the devotion severally manifested for vegetable science. 
They-are as follows, viz: 
1. The Genus Marshallia was so named by Schreber, in 1791, in 
honor of Humphrey Marshall, of West Bradiord township, who 
established the Botanical Garden, at Marshalton, in 1774; pub- 
lished the Arbustwm Americanum (the earliest American work on 
Botany) in 1785, and died November 5, 1801, aged 79 years. 
2. The Genus Baldwinia, was named by Thomas Nuttall, in 
1818, in honor of William Baldwin, M._D., of Newlin township, a 
zealous and indefatigable botanist, who accompanied Major Long 
in his Exploring Expedition to the West, and died at Franklin, 
Missouri, September 1, 1819, aged 40 years. ; ? 
8. The first Darlingtonia was dedicated by Prof. De Candolle, in 
1825, to Wm. Darlington, M.D., of Birmingham township, (now of 
West Chester) and author of a catalogue of the Flowering Plants 
growing around the Borough, in 1826; and of the Flora Cestrica, 
ublished in 1837; and an edition of the same, arranged in the 
atural Method, published in 1853. The Genus, thus proposed, 
-MYSSOURT 
BOTANICAL 
OQARDEN. 
