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New New York Stations. — It may be of sufficient interest to men- 
tion in the Bulletin that in June, 1883, I found well established on 
a railroad embankment on Coney Island quite a number of speci- 
mens of Asperugo procumbenSy L., and on the northerly side of 155th 
Street, opposite the Trinity Church cemetery, in New York city, 
Barbarea precox. 
Buffalo, N. Y. David F. Day, 
Necrology.— Samuel Botsford Buckley, Ph.D., died February i8th, 
1884, of pneumonia, at his home in Austin, Texas, aged nearly 75 
years. He was born May 9th, 1809, in Yates County, N. Y,, near Seneca 
Lake, six miles from Penn Yan and graduated at Wesleyan University, 
Conn., in the class of 1836. From this period onward he spent 
much time in the Southern States, then a comparatively new field for 
the naturalist, collecting plants, shells and insects. His various dis- 
coveries in natural science relate exclusively to southern species, 
connection with which his name often occurs. 
It was not until 1866, however, that he made his home in the 
South, at which time he was appointed State Geologist of Texas and 
became a resident of Austin. ^ 
In 1841 he discovered in Clarke County, Ala., the skeleton of a 
Zeuglodon seventy feet in length which is now in the Warren Museum 
at Boston. As a botanist he had no specialty, and his studies were 
in consequence promiscuous; yet his name will be forever linked with 
the flora of our country. He aided largely in the preparation of Mrs. 
Young's "Flora of Texas," and was several years engaged in writing 
a work on the trees and shrubs of America, which is unfinished. He 
contributed some papers on new species of ants. Among the new 
shells found by him in Florida is a beautiful Umo, w^hich Dr. Isaac 
Lea has named Unio Buckleyi, Professor Buckley was a member of 
the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, and of societies in New York, 
Buffalo and New Orleans, 
Penn Yan, N. Y. S. Hart Wright. 
Botanical Notes. 
of No? 
compiled and 
recently published by Mr. L. H. Bailey, Jr., of Cambridge, Mass. 
It includes the names of two hundred and ninety-three species and 
eighty-four varieties, and is intended as an exchange-list, a check 
list for herbaria and as a contribution -to American caricography. 
Copies of the catalogue will be given for desiderata. 
Parkinsons " Faradisus.''—.\ good many people, we suspect, 
have experienced difficulty in construing " Paradisi in Sole Paradisus 
terrestris.'' The editor of Aunt Jndfs Magazine and the venerable 
Q 
Notes 
Paradisus ' 
is a park; *' Paradisi " is, of course, the genitive of this; " in sole 
in (the) sun (son). Hence the title would run, " The TerrestriaJ 
Paradise of Park-in-son." Such punning titles were not unconinio 
in Parkinson's time. — Gardeners Chronicle. 
