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a green ask such fruit as that represented on Michaux's plate of the species, 

 with an oblong, turgid and terete body, and a wing which commences so ab- 

 ruptly, I shall retract my opinion. 



It is a curious statement to be made in the Proceedings of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, that Zaccheus Collins was a pupil and corre- 

 spondent of Linnaeus ! Also, that Linnaeus may have derived from him and 

 Dr. Kuhn his specimens of Fraxinus Americana,- upon which Linnaeus had pub- 

 lished his last words a little before he ever saw, or probably had ever heard of, 

 Dr. Kuhn, and somewhere about the time that Mr. Collins was born ! 



86. Fraxinus nigrescens. No specimen of this is communicated. A 

 specimen from Louisiana, Hale, which generally accords with the description, 

 is F. platycarpa. 



87. Fraxinus trialatais a small-leaved and small-fruited form of F. viridis, 

 var. Berlandieriana, with a triple wing, which is not uncommon in F. platycarpa 

 and some other species. 



88. Abronia speciosa is one of the forms or species which have been as- 

 sembled under the name of A. mellifera, Dough, and probably the same as 

 Wright's No. 1710, which had "red-purple flowers," and has been indicated 

 by Dr. Torrey under the still unpublished name of A. turbinata, so that if the 

 same, and really distinct, Mr. Buckley's name will take precedence. 



89. Oxybaphus pau c ifloru s is a common Texan form of 0. ?iyctagineus, 

 vide Gray in Bot. Mex. Bound, p. 174. 



90. Phyllanthus (Lepidanthus) e 1 1 i p t i c u s is founded, as appears, upon 

 a specimen of one of Wright's collections, given to the Academy's herbarium by 

 Mr. Durand. If I have myself specimens of it they are mislaid. The species is 

 distinct from any of our recognized ones of the United States, and, so far as I 

 know, a new one. But it ia not at all a Lepidanthus, is not " dioecious," but 

 monoecious, and its proper characters are not noticed in Mr. Buckley's descrip- 

 tion. Moreover, his specific name is anticipated. 



91. Moms microphylla, a common Texan Mulberry, which certainlv 

 does appear distinct from M. rubra, and was so regarded by Dr. Engelmann, 

 who distributed Lindheimer's specimens under the name of M. parvifolia ; but I 

 think it has not been published. Dr. Torrey refers it to M. rubra. 



92. Yncca 1 o n g f o 1 i a ; no specimen supplied. 



93. Yucca constricta is Y. angustifolia, Nutt. The constriction of the 

 capsule is inconstant. It occurs also in Y. rupicola. This and all the following 

 determinations are by Dr. Torrey. 



94. Juncus filipendulus ; s/. heteranthos, Nutt., a variety of J. margina- 

 tus, Rostk. 



95. Juncus diffusissimus is J", debilis, Gray, Man. 



96. Tradescantia speciosa as appears from the character and an un- 

 named species in herb. Durand, is the well-marked T. leiandra, Torr., Bot. Mex. 

 Bound, (misprinted " T. biandra ") ; but Mr. Buckley has omitted to notice its 

 beardless filaments. 



97. Cyperus retro flexus is a fully developed state of C. uniflorus,Tovv. 

 Mon. Cyp., which was described from starved specimens. 



98. Cyperus ruficomus is C. lutescens, Torr. 



99. Cyperus Heermanniiis not identified with any published North Ame- 

 iican species. 



100. Cha?tocyperus membranaceus is Eleocharis pygmcea, Torr., the va- 

 riety with naked achenia noticed in Nicollet's report. 



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