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The specimen in question evidently belongs with the tribe 
Coryphez, and its nearest living allies are to looked for in the 
genera Jrithrinax, Copernicia, Thrinax or Serenea (Sabal). The 
imperfect condition of our specimen does not admit of accurate 
comparison, but there seems to be but little doubt that it is allied to 
this group, and as we find associated with it leaves of trees which 
demonstrate that they were the ancestors of our living Lirioden- 
aron, Platanus, Sassafras, etc., we are certainly within the bounds 
of reason when we infer that we have here one of the ancestors of 
our Southern “ Palmetto,” as I have indicated in the generic name. 
The specific name has been adopted in honor of Prof. Jas. F, 
Kemp, of Columbia College, to whom the credit for finding the 
specimen is due. 
Serenopsis, N. Gen. 
Leaves small, fan-shaped, deeply pinnatifid, palmately about 18 
divided. Rays tapering to acute tips and broadening into blunt 
wedge-shaped bases. 
SERENOPSIS Kempil. Leaves circular or sub-cordate in outline, 
. somewhat longer than broad, 3 to 3% inches in diameter. 
Rays radiating in all directions from the sub-triangular apex 
of the petiole; confluent for a distance of about 4% to 4 inch 
from the petiole, then divergent; central ones about 2% inches 
long, outer (lower) ones about % inch long; average width 
about ,; inch; margins entire (?); nervation obscure. 
Only a single specimen was found. The two figures represent 
counterparts of the same one. 
Botanical Notes. 
Scabtiosa australis, Wulf—Mr. Redfield will find on page 46 of. 
the Cayuga Flora a statement of the thorough establishment of 
Scabiosa australis, not only near Farley’s Point, Cayuga Lake, but 
all along the lake shore meadows of Union Springs for five miles. 
Moreover, a full description of the species is given in the Flora, 
and the date of its first discovery (the first in America, probably), 
viz., 1881; also a reference to the possible dissemination of it from 
the little botanic garden of David Thomas, civil engineer and 
