490 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1894. 



Dr. J. Bernard Brinton. Sixty species of plants, collected on Merritt's 

 Island, Florida, by A. A. Baldwin, in 1893. 



Alexander McElwee. Zinnia grandiflora and Piniis edulis, from New 

 Mexico. Cassia tora and Sesbania macrocarpa, introduced near 

 Lansdowne, Phila., and brought to notice by Prof. Macfarlane. 



Prof. Jos6 N. Rovirosa. Thirty-six species of ferns from Chiapas, 

 Mexico. 



I. C. Hatch. Cupressus maerocarpa, from Monterey, Cala. (Monte- 

 rey Cypress), Araucai'ia exoelsa, and Quercus suber (Cork Oak), 

 cultivated at Santa Cruz, Cal., also section of a young tree of the 

 latter. 



Mrs. Boss Lewers. Pyrola rotundifolia var. bracteata, Pyrola 

 apliylla, Heuchera niicrantha, Woodsia Oregana, and Pelkea 

 Bridgesii, from Reno Co., Nevada. 



Dr. Charles Schseffer. Hough's Sections of N. American woods. Parts 

 IV and V. 



William Trimble (through Dr. Schteffer). Specimens of double wal- 

 nuts, from Concordville, Pa. 



Joseph Walton. Chimonanthus fragnins, both in flower and in leaf: 

 a native of Japan, cultivated near Philadelphia. 



Prof. F. L. Scribner. Hieracium Scribneri and Car ex Austro-Caro- 

 linensis, from Tennessee. 



Prof. C. S. Sargent. Photographic copy of a likeness of Stephen 

 Elliott, botanist. 



Baron Ferdinand vou Midler (through Thos. Meehan). Twenty-two 

 species of Australian plants. 



Herbarium of Harvard University. Six hundred and forty-nine 

 species of plants collected by the Schlagenweit brothers in Thibet, 

 and in the Himalayas, in 1856. Fifty-one species collected in Nyassa- 

 land, Africa, by J. Buchanan, in 1891. Fifteen species collected in 

 Dominica, W. 1., by Ramage, and thirty-six species collected by 

 Beardsleeand Koford, mostly in North Carolina. 



Mrs. Susanna M. Gaskell. Double flowers of Anemone Hepatica, 

 from Swarthmore, Pa. 



J. B, Ellis. Thirty-first and thirty-second Centuries of North 

 American Fungi, named and arranged by Ellis and Everhart. 



Frederick Stearns. Polyporus (species), from Loo Choo Islands. 



J. Dolores Salaverria (through Prof. Sharp). Curious abnormal 

 growth of wood, from El Progres, San Salvador, Central America. 



Roberts Le Boutillier. Alpinia nutans and eight species 6f troi)ical 

 orchids cultivated by him. 



F. V. Coville, of U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Botany. 

 One hundred and thirty-seven species of plants collected by the 

 Death Valley Expedition in 1891. 



J. A. Crabtree. Viola rotundifolia, from Wissahickon, Phila. 



Andrew Steiuemann. Curious fastigiate and spiral stem of Aspara- 

 gus officinalis. 



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