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lections of 1883, I found the var. Za¢arica, Benth.—a form grow- 
ing but one or two inches high—in the glacial regions, in low, 
swampy, grassy places. THOMAS MEEHAN. 
Long Island Plants. 
In Mr. Julius A. Bisky’s list of plants “not before reported 
from Long Island,” in the January BULLETIN, I notice Solanum 
Carolinense, L., and Symphytum officinale, L. The former Dr. 
Torrey mentions in the State Flora (1843) as growing in “ fields 
on Long Island, near Newtown”’; the latter I find in Miller and 
Young’s Catalogue of Suffolk County Plants. In June of last 
year I found Myosotis verna, Nutt.; between Greenport and 
Southold. 
FRANK N. TILLINGHAST, Greenport, L. I. 
Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 
ichmea Mexicana, Baker. (Gard. Chron., i., 3d Series, p. 8). 
Botanical Necrology for 1886.—Asa Gray. (Am. Journ. Sci., 
XXxlii., 164, 165.) 
. Among European botanists of distinction who died during 
the past year are Edouard Morren, Rev. Wm. W. Newbould, 
Dr. Wm. Hildebrand, Dr. Henry F. Hance, Prof. T. G. Orphan- 
ides, and Prof. J. W. A. Wygand. A notice of Dr. Wygand is 
published in the Botanical Gazette for January. Prof. Edward 
Tuckerman is the most notable loss among American botanists. 
Carpenteria Californica. (Garden, xxxi., pp. 100, 101, plate 
581.) 
Another beautiful plate of this showy shrub is here published. 
In noting the one in the Botanical Magazine (plate 6911), on p. 
19 of the BULLETIN, we stated that its native habitat is still un- 
certain. This statement was based on Sir J. D. Hooker’s re 
mark in describing that plate, “it is singular that the exact 
native country of so fine a shrub as Carpenterta should be 
doubtful.” Mr. W. M. Canby has called our attention to the 
oversight, stating that he possesses specimens collected by Dr. — 
Eisen, labelled “Big Dry Creek, Sierra Nevada, Fresno Co., 
Cal.” The original of the species in the Torrey Herbarium bears 
no exact locality. 
