i6g BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



and issued in the early spring. There could be no one better fitted 

 for giving directions for collecting and preserving plants than Mr. 

 Bailey, and aided as he is by others who have had long experience, the 

 book will undoubtedly be all that it claims. Such a work has never 

 been published in this country and when it has come into use botanical 

 collectors will wonder how they ever did without it. To secure copies 

 early and promptly orders should be sent on to the publisher at once. 

 The price is .$1.50. 



Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, London, is advertising three 

 very rare and costly botanical works. They are Elwes' Monograph 

 of the genus Liliiim, in 7 parts, royal folio, colored plates of every 

 known species of the genus, for £1, 75.; Clarke's CommelynaceiB et 

 Cyrtandracei\i Bengalenses, royal folio, 95 plates, for £1 ; Boott's 

 Illustrations of the Genus Carex, 4 vols, folio, 600 plates, for ^21. 



Our exchange drawer is filled this month with a lot of publi- 

 cations that are very common in this enterprising country. There 

 are "Floral Cultures," "Floral Instructors," '-Floral Albums." 

 "Horticultural Reviews," etc., etc., all printed on flimsy paper, with 

 wretched typography and st 11 more wretched matter, yet all claiming 

 to be indispensable and authoritative. Scraps of doggerel, senseless 

 correspondence and sickly sentiment go to make up the contents of 

 these valuable periodicals. How people can be deluded enough 

 to publish such stuff, or, still worse, subscribe for it, is more than we 

 can understand. 



Carex SuLLiVANTif, Boott., A HYt?RiD. —During the past twelve 

 months I have distributed a considerable number of Carex Sullivantii 

 among U. S. botanists, at first without suspecting it to be other than a 

 true species, but later with the honest conviction that it is a hybrid. 

 My views were communicated to Prof. Gray in June last, and he 

 urged me to make them public, which is the object of this communi- 

 cation . 



This pseudo-species was discovered by Sullivant, at Columbus, 

 Ohio, nearly forty years ago, in one small spot growing with C gmcillima 

 and C pubescens. Its barren perigynia led him to suspect it might be 

 a hybrid between these two species. He subsequently transplanted it 

 into his garden, where he watched it for several years, but could 

 never find mature achenia. Dr. Boott says "achenia abortive." 



Dr. S. H. Wright, (Penn Yan, N. Y..) to whom I am indebted 

 for the above 7r.f«;//e, adds : "I think you are the only person who 

 has since found it ; and, as the abortive fruit in your plants makes 

 your experience with it the same as Sullivant's, together with the fact 

 that it has lain nearly forty years before re discovery, renders the con- 

 clusion, that it is a hybrid, a pretty safe one." 



The re-discovery of this plant was in June, 1879. I found it in a 

 low meadow near the bank of a swampy stream, in the midst of C. 

 gracillima and C pubescens. That it partakes of the character of both 

 these species there can be no doubt whatever. Of the former are its 

 spikelets, of the latter its perigynia, though smaller. At flowering 



