CLITI * 



Botanical Gazette. 



Vol. VII. APRIL, 1882. No. 4. 



Editorial. — Mk. E. L. Greene describes six new species of 

 Composite in the Torrey Bulletin for February. Half of them be- 

 long to the genus Hemizonia. 



New stations are being found for Asplenium ebenoides, but 

 not much definite information is gained with reference to the origin 

 of this suspicious species. Whether it is a hybrid between Camp- 

 tosorus and A. ebeneum or not still remains to be decided, though 

 the burden of testimony all seems to be in favor of that idea. 



Mr. John H. Redfield calls attention to the fact that Dr. 

 Gray, in his Synoptical Flora of N. Am., says that Plantago elon- 

 gata, Pursh, of "Bradbury's collection on the Missouri, is unknown, 

 probably a glabrate form of P. Palagonica." Pursh's specimen 

 ticketed (probably from Lambert) P. elongata, and noted as from 

 Bradbury, has recently been found in the herbarium of the Phila- 

 delphia Academy and proves to be unmistakably P. pus ilia, Nutt. 



Our plant collectors have been unusually active during the 

 past season, and the result is appearing in the unusual number of 

 desirable plants for sale. Handsome catalogues have been received 

 from the Parish Bros., San Bernardino, Calif, Wm. C. Cusick, 

 Union, Oregon, and Prof. Marcus E. Jones, of Salt Lake City. 

 Add to these Mr. Geo. R. Yasey, Mr. C. G. Pringle, Mr, J. G. Leni- 

 mon, Mr. W. N. Suksdorf, and Mr. H. H. Rusby, and it looks as 

 though a botanist can obtain almost any western plants he desires. 



Prof., J. C. Arthur has issued a fourth " Contribution to the 

 Flora of Iowa." The Flora of this state bids fair to be thoroughlv 

 known, for it contains as fine a corps of active collectors as any 

 state can boast. In the present paper the plants to be credited to 

 the state, and not found in Gray s Manual, are Artemisia serrata, 

 Nutt., Senecio lugens, var. Hooker!, Eaton, Plantago Rugelii, De- 

 caisne, Gerardia tenuifolia, var. macrophylla, Benth., Cuscuta 

 Gronocii,vax. latiflora, Engelm., Polygonum Muhlenbergii, Watson, 

 Aristida pupurea, Nutt. 



Thomas P. James. — It is with m-eat regret that the Gazette is 

 called upon to record the death of this eminent botanist. He died 

 in Cambridge, Mass., February 22, in his 79th year. Most of his 



