1888.] NATUKAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. • 45^ 



Prof. Edward L. Greene, University of Californiii. 36 species ot new or clioice 



California plants. 

 Prof. Thos. C. Porter of Lafayette College, Easlon, Pa. 15 species of plants fron> 



Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 

 Frank Tweedy, of U. S. Geological Survey. Erigeron Tweedyi Canby, a new 



species from Montana. 

 Wm. M. Canby. 18 species of Euiopean plants, and 10 species from tlie mountains 



of North Carolina and Tennessee, including the rare species Senecio Rugelia 



Gr. and Buckley a distichophylla Torr. 

 Miss Adele Fielde, of Swatow, S. China. Boehmeria nivea (L.) Hk. and Arn> 



with specimens of its fibre and of fabrics woven therefrom; acorns of Quercus 



fissa Camp. 

 C. Mclntyre. Nut oi Phytelephas macrocarpa, (Vegetable Ivory). 

 Isaac C. Marti ndale. ,32 species of North American and Ballast plants. 

 Thomas Meehan and John H. Redfield, supplemented by proceeds of Academy 



Duplicates : — 983 species of plants collected by Dr. H. H. Rusby mostly in 



Bolivia in 1885 and 1866, a large majority of them being new to the collection.. 

 J. M. Price through Wm. Hunt. 2 species of Australian Eucalypti, and 2 species of 



Australian Acacia, cultivated in California. 

 Herbert Aldrich, Springfield, Mass., through Thos. Meehan. 5 species of Arctic 



Plants, from north-western coast of Arctic America. 

 Dr. Geo. A. Rex and Dr. H. Wingate. 20th and 21st Centuries of Ellis and 



Everharts' North American Fungi. 

 Roberts LeBoutillier. Streptosolen Jamesonii, Miers, (cult.) a native of New 



Granada; Staphylea Colchiai Stev. (cult.) and Symphytum asperrimutn Sims, 



(Cult.) natives of Caucasus. 

 Miss Frances Whitney. Fasciate form of Ranmicidus bulbosus L. from Bryn. 



Mawr, Pa. 

 Aubrey H. Smith. 2-5 species of plants from mountains of western North Carolina 



and New Hampshire, and Carex miliaris Mx. from Maine. 

 Prof. N. L. Britton, Columbia College, N. Y. Aesciilus argiita Buckley, Kansas^ 



Corema alba L. Portugal; Hicoria alba (L.), Hicoria microcaipa (Nutt.) and 



Hicoria minima Marsh, from Staten Island, N. Y. 

 Wm. H. Dougherty. Clianthus Dampieri A. Cunn, native of Australia ai.d 



Leonotis Leonurus L. native of South Africa, both cultivated at Mt. Pleasant, 



New Jersey. 

 John Donnell Smith. Specimens of Darbya umbellulata Gr. both pistillate and 



staminate plants. 

 Prof. John H. Barbour, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. Mimulus lutetis L., na- 

 tive of California, established in fields, Norfolk, Ct. 

 Wittmer Stone. Oxybaphus nvctigineus Sweet and Brotnus ste7-ilis L., introduced 



at Wayne Junction near Philadelphia ; 41 species of vascular plants, 3 of Lichens^ 



and 23 of Algae collected by him in Bermuda. 

 Miss Van Wyck. "LtTii o{ Aponogetoit fenestralis Hk, native of Madagascar, fron> 



Botanic Garden of Mauritius. 

 Mrs. Lewars. Snrcodes sanguiiiea Torr. (Snow-plant) from California. 

 Prof. Joseph T. Rothrock. 60 species of plants collected by himself in Manatee Co.,. 



Florida, in spring of 1887. 

 Jose N. Rovirosa. 100 species of plants from vicinity of San Juan Bautista, province 



of Tabasco, Mexico, of which .52 are new to the collection, 

 Tohn H. Redfield. 266 species of plants collected by C. G. Pringle in province of 



Coahuila, Mexico in 1887, of which 12^ are new to the collection ; 191 species 



collected by himself in New England and 220 species mostly from western 



states to supply desiderata in the Herbarium. 



Plants (Fossil). 



L. Woolman. Sigillaria, Elkland, Pa. 



H. W. DuBois. Plant remains from the Trias of New Jersey; SagenopteriSf 

 Newark, N. J. 



