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a pioneer botanist. As a collection, it would, at the present day, be 

 deemed of small account, but, as containing the material on which 

 Dr. Muhlenberg's labors were based, it must always have historic 

 value. Even now the leading workers in descriptive botany have oc- 

 casionally to recur to these vouchers for needed evidence; but their 

 value Is much diminished by the fact that for the most_ part, no 

 record of the locality is preserved, and that, in frequent instances, 



different species are laid together under the same name. 



J. H. R. 



77. Idaho Plants. — The acknowledgments of the Torrey Club 

 are due to Dr. T. E. Wilcox, U.S.A., of Boisee City, Idaho, for se\i- 

 eral packages of plants of that vicinity collected in April and May of 

 this year. Many interesting species are represented ; among them, 

 Delphinium decorum, var. Nevadense^ Watson ; Brodiaea laxa, Wat- 

 son; Fritillaria pudica, Spreng.; Allium Ne'Dadense^ Watson; Bal- 

 samorrhiza Hookeri, Nutt.; Anten?ia7'ia dimorpha^ T. tt G.; Crepis 

 occidentalism Nutt.; Lupiniis Ckamissonis, Eschs.; Mertensia oblongi- 



folia 



fifolia 



5-flowered scape and showing also marked differences in the inflores- 

 cence from that described by Dr. Gray. Prof. Wood regarded this 

 as a variety of P, Parryi, Gray, and named it van Wilcoxiana, It 

 appears to be the same as var. Cusickiana^ Gray, of P. angustifolia 

 {N, A. Flora, p. 393) except that the last-named variety is described 

 as only 2-flowered. P. angustifolia flourishes in its typical, i -flower- 

 ed form, on high mountain elevations, such as Gray's and Pike's 

 Peak, at 11,000 ft. to 13,000 ft., where we have found it abundant. 

 The many-flowered forms grow at much lower elevations (where P. 

 Parryi, a much larger species, is found) but the foliage shows no marks 

 of any greater vigor in the plants. It is possibly a distinct species. 

 ^ A. B. 



] ^' § 78. Contributions tow^ard a List of the State and Local 

 -'^^^ Floras of the United Stales, r ^ 



THE MIDDLE STATES.* ' 



New Jersey. 

 i" Catalogue of Plants growing without cultivation in the State of New 



Jersev, with a specific description of all the Violets found there- 

 in. By O. R. Willis. (C.) 

 i2mo. pp. 71. New York, 1874. (Enlarged edition, New York, 



1877.) 

 a i List. of New Jersey Fun^i. By M. C. Cooke and J. B, Ellis. (C.) 



i 



In Grevillea, Vols, iv, v, vi, vii and^viii, London, 1876-80. 

 Mo7i7nouth and Ocean Counties. 



^ 1 Catalogue of Plants growing without 'cultivation in the Counties of 



Monmouth and Ocean, By P. D. Knieskern, M.D. (B.) 

 In 3d Annual Rep. Geol. Survey, Trenton, 1856. 



Pennsylvania. 4 



Flora of Pennsylvania and Botanical Pocket Manual. By H. R. 



Noll. (D.) 



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*Continued from page 19. 



