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There are numerous private as well as public herbaria, both in 
this country and in Europe, that owe many of the treasures they 
possess to the kindness and generosity of Judge Peters. He 
brought to light that rare and curious sedge, Carex Boottiana, and 
he was one of the earliest students of the fungi of Alabama. His 
collections of this class of plants as well as his botanical library 
he donated to. the Alabama State University. " 
The discoverer of the very rare NMeviusia Alabamensts, the 
Rev. R. Nevius, should be named in passing, although he is now 
stationed on the Pacific coast. He communicated many interest- 
ing Southern plants to Dr. Gray, and in his new field of labor he 
is continuing his botanical studies, paying particular attention to 
mosses. 
Louisiana is at this time the fortunate possessor of a most in- 
dustrious and acute botanist in the person of Rev. A. B. Langlois, 
of St. Martinsville. Mr. Langlois was born in France in 1832, 
and he began. his botanical studies in. that country, for before 
coming to America in 1855, he had made an herbarium of some 
1200 species. He spent nearly two years in Cincinnati complet- 
ing his ecclesiastical education, and then located at Point-a-la- 
Hache, La., where he remained for thirty years. The locality 
being near the delta of the Mississippi was one of peculiar botan- 
ical interest, and Mr. Langlois succeeded in discovering many 
rare and some new species of plants. Langlois has carried om 
his botanical studies under circumstances which would have de- 
terred many from undertaking them. He has been entirely cut 
off from botanical associates, and the climate of his region is SO 
moist as to render the drying of specimens most difficult. Upon 
going to Point-a-la-Hache, he at once renewed his botanical work, 
but being entirely without books and wholly unacquainted with 
any American botanist, he sent his first collections, numbering 
some 300 species, to France to be named, but he never heard . 
from them or received one word of encouragment. Evidently 3 
disheartened he dropped the study of plants for twenty years;* 
period which he now looks upon with deep regret. In 187 ane 
began again the study, first with only Wood’s “ Manual,” and g 
then with Chapman’s “Southern Flora.” Langlois thus relates ee 
his progress from this time, «By accident I learned that there 
