32 THE PLANT WORLD. 



Moffattii, Lathyriis polymorphus., Suceda Torreyana, Astragalus Patter- 

 soni^ A. lonchocarpus and an Ephedra. 



The trip up on the west side was also rich in results, the days 

 throughout being punctuated with exclamation marks. It must be 

 borne in mind that our work this year was practically confined to 

 July. We could plainly see that an immense and rich later flora was 

 coming on everywhere. This of course we entirely missed, but will be 

 properly worked another season. This region is also rich in algae and 

 fleshy fungi, neither of which we touched. Mosses and fungi were 

 abundant, but it will require several seasons to do them anything like 

 justice. The barest facts only, in connection with this work, can be 

 mentioned at this time ; before long, a full report, including all the de- 

 tails, will be published. 



On one of the last afternoons spent in the LaPlatas we stood on 

 the summit of Hayden Peak, as the sun was sinking. Around us was 

 spread a panorama which was awe-inspiring to say the least. Far to 

 the southwest could be seen the dim outline of the Blue Mountains in 

 Utah. Westward we looked against the awful masses of San Miguel, 

 eastward into the heart of San Juan. To the whispered invitation 

 which came to us on the breezes from off those mighty summits, we 

 could but reply, in solemn elation of spirit, "Aye, aye, we will come 

 again." 



Auburn, Ala., Sept. 25, 1898. 



Buffalo, N. Y., is not behindhand in these days of the organization 

 of new botanical gardens. Though but very recently established, Mr. 

 J. F. Cowell, the Director, reports that the Buffalo garden contains 

 already a large collection of woody plants, and that substantial progress 

 has been made in the construction of the green-house and the formation 

 of an herbarium. The garden, being a public institution, receives 

 financial support from the city. 



Prof. Amos Eaton, in the preface to the fifth edition of his Manual 

 of Botany for North America, published in 1829, says: " There are 

 not, probably, 50 undescribed species of Phenogamous plants in the 

 United States — perhaps not one species east of the Mississippi." This 

 prediction was of course far from the truth, as very well shown in the 

 later editions of his own manual. Thus in this fifth edition he included 

 858 native genera of flowering plants, and 3,885 species, and in the 

 eighth edition, published in 1840, or only eleven years later, he ac- 

 cepted 1,011 native genera of flowering plants and 4,637 species! The 

 flora as now recognized, according to Heller's recently published Cat- 

 alogue of North American plants, embraces about 14,000 species, and 

 still the end is apparently not in sight. — F. H. K. 



