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newal and extension of these copyrights by new editions, contin- 

 uations, and supplements, such as may be needed in the study of 

 botany and as may best enhance and prolong the pecuniary value 

 of this bequest.' " 



'■ And it was thereupon voUd, that Dr. Gray's bequest be 

 gratefully accepted upon the terms named in his will, and that 

 the thanks of the President and Fellows be sent to Mrs, Gray 

 for the kind manner in which she has given notice of the bequest 

 to the Corporation. 



'* Voted, to proceed to the election of a Fisher Professor of 

 Natural History, whereupon, ballots being given hi, it appeared 

 that George Lincoln Goodale, A.M., M.D., was elected. 



TrypetJieliiim heterochrous (Mont.), Tuck. — A plant of this 

 name has been announced in the Journal of Mycology as new 

 to the United States. Tuckerman would never have been guilty 

 of such a solecism as giving a masculine termination to an adjec- 

 tive qualifying a neuter noun, and he has in fact only referred 

 Verrticaria heterochrous, Mont, to 'Trypetheliimi by implication in 

 his Genera, p. 260. The same plant is mentioned as North 

 American in the supplement to the Introduction to the study of 

 Lichens under the name of T, Kunzei, Fee, on the authority of 

 Dr. J. Muller, in h 

 good authority. — H. W. 



Iris cristata in Ohio, — Dr. Watson writes that he has received 

 this plant from Mr. R. H. Ingraham, of Youngstown, collected 

 in ravines in Trumbull Co , and suggests that it should be found 

 in Western New York as well. 



Specimens of Hickories zvanted, — Dr. Thomas F. Lucy, of 

 Elmira, N. Y., wishes us to state that he desires specimens of the 

 genus Carya from all parts of the United States in flower, fruit 

 and leaf, together with notes as to habitat, size of trees and ap- 

 pearance and characters of the bark, as he intends to make a 

 critical study of the genus. 



Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 



Asa Gray, Notice of. — Walter Deane. (Pamphlet pp. 24, Cam- 

 bridge University Press, 1888). In quoting by pages this 

 must not be confounded with the original reprint from the 



Bulletin. 



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