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September. He was born in Palmyra, Wayne Co., N. Y., March 
7th, 1811, and was conseqnently in the 65th year of his age. Dr. 
Lapham was better known in other scientific directions than in 
botany, to which, however, he did good service. Laphamia, Gray, 
a Western composite, was named in his honor. 
§ 59. Tetramerism in an Amaryllid—Some time ago (Bull., 
Vol. TL, No. 7), I described a case of tetramerism in our familiar 
“ Spiderwort ” (Zradescantia.) Mr. Redfield, in the next number, 
reported a similar fact in the case of Lilium auratum, A very com- 
plete example of the same peculiarity was lately seen by me in an- 
other cultivated endogen,—the “ pink lily,” so called, which is per- 
haps only a garden variety of Amaryllis (Zephyranthes) Atamasco. 
During a visit to Trenton Falls, N. Y., I found, in the beautiful 
garden attached to Mr. Moore’s hotel at that place, several plants 
of this species in flower. One of these flowers was perfectly tetra- 
merous,—perianth eight-parted, stamens eight, and stigma four- 
cleft. The other flowers were all normal. D.s.m. 
§ 60. Publications.—1. Catalogue of Plants growing without 
cultivation within thirty miles of Amherst College, by Edward 
Tuckerman, M. A., Professor of Botany, and Charles C. Frost, 
M. A. President Hitchcock’s Catalogue was published as early as 
1829. Prof. Tuckerman records his indebtedness in this new List 
to others and “not least to Rev. H. G. Jessup, who has recently 
gone over the larger part of the ground afresh, with unsurpassed 
care, and added a very considerable number of new things. It is 
to the same gentleman that the college owes the foundation and 
the building up of its new North American Herbarium.” The pre- 
face contains a few precious statistics of the date of the appearance 
of certain common weeds. The catalogue itself is a model of its 
class for completeness and typographical excellence. It is divided 
into two series: the first, of 43 pages, contains the flowering plants ; 
the second, of 54 pages, the flowerless plants; Equisetacex, Filices, 
Lycopidiacew, Musci (9 pages), Characez, 1 Alga, Lichenes (7 pages), 
Fungi (36 pages); the Lichenes, by Prof. Tuckerman, the other 
lower Cryptogams by Mr. Frost. There are of course many mat- 
ters of general interest, such as, “ Calluna vulgaris, Northfield, 
Frost.—2. Catalogue of Paintings, Natural Mstory, dc.,. of the 
Louisville Industrial Exposition, contains a list of thirty-one ferns 
native to Kentucky, arranged by John Williamson, among them 
Asplenium Bradleyi.—3. Sixty-third Annual Catalogue of Hamit- 
ton College, Clinton, N. Y., with tables of trees and shrubs which 
have or have not proved hardy in the College grounds.—4. The 
Overland Monthly for August contains some botanical notes of a 
popular character, especially in relation to the cultivation of Euca- 
lyptus in the California marsh lands, by Dr. Wm. P. Gibbons. 
Terms—One Dollar per annum beginning with the January number, 12 cents for postage. 
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