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resents much patient and painstaking labor on the part of its au- 

 thor, who gives very full and detailed measurements of different 

 parts of the plant in each species. It shows what can be done 

 by a. man of firm purpose and in love with his work, even when 

 hampered by conditions that would generally be considered suffi- 

 cient to incapacitate any one for all work. He was the author of 

 several species of fungi, among which are TricJiolonm Pcrkii, Ily- 

 grophoriis Peckianus^ Puccinia curtipes, P. Pcckianus^ MicrospJiacra 

 nicnispcnni^ M. platani and M, syuipJioricarpi, 



He was a correspondent of Professors Gray, Wood, Lesque- 

 reux, Dr. Vascy and many other prominent botanists of their day. 

 He was also a correspondent of sev^eral European botanists of note. 

 While at Fort Edward he directed the attention of the writer to 

 the Interesting features of mycology and induced him to enter this 

 field of botanical inv^estigation, which at that time was almost a 

 terra iiicognita in this country. This was the beginning of a friend- 

 ship that our botanical excursions, our correspondence, and per- 

 sonal intercourse have served to make stronger and stronger. He 

 was diffident to a fault, strongly sympathetic with the suffering, 

 generous and honorable in his dealings w^ith all and preeminent in 

 his profession for the correctness of his diagnoses of disease. 



He has contributed many specimens to the state herbarium. 

 These fine examples of flowering plants, mosses and fungi will 

 continue silently, but effectively, to bear witness to his activity in 

 collecting, his care and neatness in preparing, and his generosity 

 in giving specimens of plants in the study of which he took so 

 much pleasure. His name is fittingly commemorated by two 

 fnngi, StropJiaria Hoiucana Pk. and Hxpoxylon Htnvcaiiuni Pk. 



