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he retired, being then, as one of his successors informs us, "looked 
upon as a very old man." Afterward, however, he was married a 
second time (his first wife had died in 1840) to Miss Louisa Moreau; 
and returned to Litchfield, there quietly to spend his last years. He 
died Oct. 18, 1872. 
In the preface to his “Flora of the Northern and Middle States," 
Dr. Torrey includes Mr. Brace among the botanists for whose assis- 
tance he makes acknowledgment, and cites his specimens and notes 
some dozen times in the body of the work. But, so far as I am aware, 
Mr. Brace’s own published botanical work is confined to the “ List 
of Plants growing spontancously in Litchfield and in its Vicinity," 
which appeared in Silliman's Journal in 1822. This list contains an 
extraordinary number of misprints; but, in spite of such superficial 
disfigurement, remains a good record of personal observations at a 
time when the maker of a local flora, were it no more than a bare 
catalogue, could still be a pioneer. Mr. Brace was an amateur and 
knew his limitations. He attempted no changing of names nor 
descriptions of new species. In these matters, he was evidently 
guided by his correspondent, Dr. Torrey. He records 453 species 
with the habitat, time of flowering, color of flowers and frequency of 
occurrence, of each. In the case of the rarer species, definite localities 
are often given. Such a list is always of interest to students of a 
local flora, for the bits of evidence it gives as to the history and spread 
of introduced species and as to changes in floristic conditions; and, 
sometimes, for its omissions. The most significant of these, in the case 
of Mr. Brace’s list, is Marsilea quadrifolia. To botanists of the 
present generation, the Bantam Lake station for that species is classic, 
as the single one in North America where the plant may be native. 
But it was evidently unknown to Mr. Brace: indeed, the earliest 
mention of it I can find is in the addenda to the fourth edition of Gray's 
Manual, published in 1863. The station at Cromwell, Conn., which 
has existed, unknown to fame, for at least forty years, may be as old. 
Rossiter, in Old Town Folks, “had a ponderous herbarium of his 
own collection and arrangement over which he gloated with affection- 
ate pride." Doubtless this is literally enough true of Mr. Brace; 
and an added interest is given to his list by the existence of his her- 
barium which is still preserved at Williams College. There, through 
the kindness of Professor Clarke, Mr. C. H. Bissell and the writer were 
recently permitted to examine it. It is somewhat shrunken from Ros- 
