, CLUB. * 



Botanical Gazette. 



Vol. VII. JULY, 1830. No. 7 



Editorial. — In the Torrey Bulletin for June the editors 

 continue their valuable list of the state and local floras of the United 

 States. This is the third paper and is devoted to the south-eastern 

 states, embracing Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South 

 Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Georgia seems to have been most 

 poorly provided for, but a single local list having been made in the 

 whole state. 



Proe. A. B. Seymour, in the last Gazette, was made responsi- 

 ble for a rather meaningless note. His note upon "Early Fungi" 

 bore the date of March 5 in the manuscript, but no date appeared 

 in print, thus making it lose all its force. We would suggest that 

 our readers date the note referred to, that it may not be lost sight of. 

 Mr. Chas. E. Smith, of Philadelphia, writes reporting a new 

 station for Corema Conradii. He says : U I learned that Corema 

 Conradii grew on Shawangunk Mountain, Ulster Co., N. Y., and 

 as the plant has disappeared from two of the four localities formerly 

 known (New Jersey and Long Island) I went there and got it. In 

 the struggle for existence it appears to be getting the worst of it, 

 and is dying out. On the second of May I found it in full bloom. 

 The Index to the genus Carex omits C. Porter i, Olney, found 

 by Prof. Porter in Maine ; C. glaucodea, Tuck., found in New Jer- 

 sey ; and gives U C. Fraseriana, Sims, no synonym.' 1 Gray writes it 

 C. Fraseriana, Sims ; Chapman C. Ftaseri, Sims; Boott in his 

 Carices writes C. Fraseri, Andrews, syn. C. Fraseriana, Sims, and 

 adcts a note giving names and dates of publication to justify the 

 name Fraseri and Andrews as the authority. For these corrections 

 we are indebted to Mr. Chas. E. Smith. 



Mr. Joseph Jackson, Jr., of Millbury, Mass., is contributing 

 to the Worcester Daily Spy some very interesting notes on the 

 flora of that neighborhood. The subject is treated in a popular 

 way which makes it interesting to the unscientific reader. The ar- 

 ticles really furnish lists of the first appearance of the plants of 

 that region, accompanied by appropriate remarks. As soon as 50 

 species have been enumerated they are published, thus making at 

 the close of the season quite a complete catalogue. 



Prof. V. Cesati, Director of the Botanic Garden at Naples, * 

 has offered for sale his large collection of plants. It consists of 

 about 49,000 species, 32,000 being phanerogams, the whole con- 

 taining over 350,000 specimens. The phanerogams are classified 



