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Mo/^/am.— Judith Mts., Canby ; Rattlesnake Canon, Watson, 

 ^o. 137; Little Belt Mts., Scribncr, No. 52; (9;r-.w.— Nuttall, 

 (type), Lt. Mullan; Blue Mts., Henderson. lVcrs/injo-/on.—Spo- 

 kcineCo , Suksdorf, No. 299; Cascade Mts., Yakima, Brandcgee. 

 I^n^is/i Awcnra.—Kooianie Pass, Rocky Mts., Dawson. 



Var. TEXUIFOLIA, n. var. 

 Glabrous, stem naked, i'' to 2" hi-h ; leaves thin, round-cor- 

 date, i' to 2' broad, somewhat incisely 5 or 7 lobcd, lobes crenate, 

 anstate-dcntate, margin minutely ciliate; petioles slender, 2' to 

 4' long; calyx at tim'e of flowering 2" to 3" long, campanulate, 

 open, minutely glandular, deeply cleft into somewhat unequal- 

 lobes; petals narro\^'ly spatulate, becoming as long, or nearly as 

 long, as the calyx lobe.s. 



Or^oo;2.—]^car the Dalles, Thos. Howell (distrib. as //. ^/a- 

 bclla, Nutt). Washington. —SmcoQ Mts., J. Howell. 



In ciddltion to the specimens contained in the Columbia Col- 

 lege Herbarium, those of Harvard College, the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the National Herbarium at 

 Washington, the Geological Survey of Canada, Mr. Wm. 

 Canby and Prof. Thos. C. Porter liave been examined. 



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A Biographical Sketch of Dr. George Thurber. 



1]Y II. ir. Rusi:v. 



George Thurber was born in Providence, R. I., on Septem- 

 ber 2d, 1821, his father being Jacob Thurber, for many years a 

 well-known business man of that city. Although Dr. Thurber 

 was in the strict sense of the word a self- educated man, his chief 

 studies lying iu the direction of subjects in which he was specially 

 mterestcd, and being pursued by methods of his own devisinfr 

 yet he enjoyed for some time the advantages of study at the 

 Union Classical and Engineering School of Providence, conducted 

 by Mr. Thomas C. Hartshorn. Among his schoolmates were 

 several men who have since become distinguished, the most 

 noted of them, perhaps, being Mr. George William Curtis. He 

 never graduated from this institution. By his strong disposition 

 to utilize the results of study in some practical manner, he was 

 soon led to become interested in the subject of pharmacy, and 

 was duly apprenticed to a pharmacist of his native city. During 



