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Reliquise Rafinesquianse.— it may be of interest to put on record, 
as an appendix to Dr. Gray's exhaustive account of Rafinesque and 
his writings,* the fact that there exists in the library of the New York 
Academy of Science, bound up in a volume of ''Botanical Tracts " 
(Vol. C), a collection of 29 copper-plate engravings illustrating 
Kafinesque's " Select New Plants of North America.'^ On the lower 
margin of the first plate is written in ink: '' The following plates are 
the proofs of plates lost in my shipwreck of 1815/' and on the reverse 
of the same plate is written in the same hand: "Collection of 29 
Plates and 46 Figures of New Genera and Species of Plants, from 
North America, discovered by C. S. Rafinesque in 1802-4. Pub- 
hshed in 1807, 1808 and 1814. These Plates never published— only 
Proofs of Plates lost 18 15, thus they are a unique collection. De- 
posited m the Lyceum at the foundation in 1817, by the author. 
/^.' '^^^ Phyllepidium alone was published in the Encycl. Journal 
of Sicily/' 
I give the inscription verbatim et literatim. The plates are of two 
different sizes, and illustrate new genera and species of both flower- 
ing-plants and fungi. The figures of phsenogamous plants, although 
not very artistic, were probably copied from nature, and are as fol- 
lows (the^ names in parenthesis being the author's corrections and 
notes m ink): Burshia {Piirshia\ /lumiiis^ Gerardia 7naritima. 
Dr 
fiiiformisj Diphrylhim bifolium 
lutea^ Viburnujfi villosum^ Arenaria imbricata (Raf. 1802. A. squar- 
^osa^ Michx.,1803), Ranunculus obtiisiusciilus^ Phyllepidium squarrosum^ 
■Ludwigia hirtella^ Arethusa medeol aides [Odoneciis verticillata)^ Isotria 
'^^rtiallata^ Chironia am<^na {Sabbatia stellaris^ Pursh.). The fungi 
represented are as follows: Volvaria coccinea {Volvycium coccineum)^ 
■Hydnum barbatum^ H, cerulescens, H, citrinum, If. dilatatum, Clavaria 
^iirtna-fuscay C, bicolor^ C. dryop/iylla, C. tricolor^ Acinophora auran- 
naca, Phorima betuiina, Druparia volvacea, Peziza albcJ-ru/a^ P. 
globulosa, P, lupularia, P, smiraldina, P.pulcherrima^ P, depressa, P. 
ocliro-chlora, CeropJiora clavata^ C globularis. C. capitata^ C. dichotoma^ 
^. ratnosa^ C. pyriformis, Astrycum multifidmn^ A, dimidiatum, Dicar- 
phiis rubenSy ^dyciaalba^ Colonnaria urceolata^ and C truncata. Most 
of these figures of fungi seem to have been drawn from memory— 
possibly from imagination, and all arc quite rudely executed. Those 
^elating to known genera bear only a remote resemblance to the 
objects that they were designed to illustrate, and not one could pos- 
sibly be of aid in the determination of a species. In the March, 
1880, number of the Bulletin I suggested that, from Rafinesque's 
^rief diagnosis, his genus ^dycia may have been what is now known 
as Corynites, and that his Colonnaria was probably the same thing as 
the at present recognized genus Laternea — his two species being 
rnerely accidental varieties of what Bosc before him had named 
Uathrus {Laternea) columnatus. A reference to the plate, however, 
in which is figured an improbable fungus under the name of j^dycia 
^^ba^ at once dispels any illusion that we might possess as to the 
Identity of the latter with Corynites, The object looks not unlike a 
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