Vol. /. 



OC't'OBER, 1876. 



JV'o. 72. 



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Calandrinia Leana, n. sp, — Smooth: leaves all radical, thick and succulent, 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, 1 — \H inclies loii.a:; scapes several from a thickened root, 

 erect, 6 to 8 inches higli, furnislied above the middle and at tlie bases of the pe- 

 duncles with small, ovate, scarious. glandular-denticulate bracts; inflorescence 

 corymbose; sepals 2, orbicular, scarious, glandular-denticulate at the terminations 

 of tlie veins. 1}^ lines in lengtli and breadth; petals 5 to 7, cuneate-obovate, retuse 

 or emarginate, bright red, 6 lines long; stamens 5 to 7, shorter than the petals; 

 style 2>2 lines long; ovary of the same length, ovoid; ovules 2 to 10; seeds black, 

 shining, estrophiolate. The wliole plant is more or less reddish, and resembles 

 Spraguea umbellata in its general liabit. It is named for Mr. L. W. Lee, who col- 

 lected it, August 2d, 1876, on the Siskiyou Mountains, near tlie southern boun- 

 dary of Oregon. — Tiios. C. Porter. 



A VALUABLE LIBRARY FOR Sale. — Tiic Library of the French Botanist, Adolphe 

 Broiigniart, is to be sold by auction in Paris on the 4th of December next, and the 

 succeeding days. The Catalogue makes a duodecimo volume of two liundrcd and 

 forty pages. The botanical portion is of course the richest and fills a hundred and 

 seventy-four pages, comprising all departments of the science. The depai-tment 

 of fossil plants is especially full, and, as the prefatory note remarks, would make 

 a library by itself, and is almost complete. M. Brongniart was the creator of veg- 

 etable paheontology, and to the end of his life devoted himself to collecting all 

 that was published on this subject, small and great. Besides this the library con- 

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 lets, and papers published in the proceedings of learned societies. The books are 

 subject to an addition of 5 per cent, to the price for the expenses of the sale, and 

 an additional 5 per cent, to the agent, M. E. Deyrolle, fils, 23 rue de la Monnaie, 

 Paris, of whom we presume catalogues may be procured by any one desiring 

 them.— W. 



Ferns at the Centennial. — The Hawaiian department at the Centennial Ex- 

 hibition contains several sets of the Ferns of the Islands, which are very beauti- 

 ful, and comprise over a hundred different species. They would be a desirable 

 acquisition for a collector of Ferns, but the prices set upon them are altogether too 

 high. Thirty dollars for a hundred specimens of small Ferns, and from that up 

 to seventy-five dollars and more for large ones, is altogether out of proportion to 

 the usual commercial price of E.csiccati. Thus Norrlin's collection of Lapland 

 lichens, embracing 300 species, is furnished' for thirty dollars, and the labor and 

 expense of collecting plants in that arctic region must be much greater than in 

 the tropical islands. — W. 



Some Notes from Milwaukee. — From a private letter of Dr. J. S. Douglas to 

 the Editor, the following notes are of general interest : "Have you discovered anj"^ 

 rays in the Aster aw/nstus? It is new in this region, having first appeared here 

 two years ago, but is now abundant, but I have never been able to discover any 

 rays. The introduction of new plants in a locality is curious. For example, I 



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