354 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1884. 



G. W. Holstein. 8 species of Cretaceous and Carboniferous fossils, from 



Texas. 

 J. Willcox. 15 trays of Oligocene rocks and fossils, West Coast of Fla» 

 T. H. Aldrich. 21 species of Tertiary fossils, from Mississippi. 

 W. Spillmau. 4 species of Eocene fossils and 2 species of Cretaceous 



fossils, from Mississippi. 



Botany (recent).— Wm. M. Canby, in charge of Division of Economic 

 Botany of Northern Transcontinental Survey. 1013 species of plants, 

 collected in 1883, in Dakota, Montana and Washington Territories by 

 himself, and by F. L. Sciibner, T. S. Brandegee and Frank Tveeedy ; 6 

 species collt-cted in Maryland and Florida, by J. Donnell Smith. 



A. L. Siler, Kane Co., Utah, through Thomas Meehan. 41 species plants, 

 from Southern Utah. 



Wm. H. Jeffries, West Chester, Pa. Specimens of Oentiana campestriSf 

 from vicinity of Geneva, Switzerland. 



John H. Redfield. 130 species plants, from Atlantic and Pacific States, 

 mostly new to Academy's Herbarium ; specimens of Corema Conradii 

 Torr., from the chief known localities of the United States. 



John H. Redfield and Isaac C. Marrindale. 9 species plaints collected by 

 C. R. Orentt, on border of Lower California, in 1888, mostly new to the 

 Herbarium. 



Isaac C. Martindale. Ellis' 11th, 12th and 13th Centuries of North 

 American Fungi ; "Tuckahoe," or "Indian Bread," collected at Kirk- 

 wood, N. J., by Joel P. Kirkbride. 



Thos. Meehan. Sesbania punicea B. and H., cultivated in Southern States; 

 Cuscuta racemosa Mart., var. Chiliana Engelm., growing on Lucerne, in 

 California, with European specimens of same, both received from Dr. 

 Engelmann ; 207 species of plants collected by him in British Columbia 



and Alaska, in 1883 ; Aphelandra , from Western Guatemabi ; 16 



species plants, collect* d in Arizona, by J. G. Lemmon ; Male Strobilus 



of Macrozamia , an Australian Cycad ; Specimens of Halesia tetra- 



ptera L., from Mr. Meehan's garden, with specimens of an aberrant 

 seedling from same plant, to illustrate remarks of Mr. Meehan in Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., for 1884, p. 32. 



John W. Eckfeldt. 100 species Lichens, mostly from Pennsylvani, 

 mounted and named by himself; 132 species Licheus, from Hawaiian 

 Islands, England, Austria, Sweden, etc, mostly new to Academy's 

 collection. 



Asa Gray. 39 species Arctic plants, collected by Dr. John Murdock, at 

 Signal Service Station, Ooglamie, Pt. Banow, Arctic Sea, lat. 71° ; 19 

 species plants, collected at Copper I., and Behring's Island, Coast of 

 Kamtschatka, by L. Stejneger, in 1882 and 1883; 101 species plants, 

 mostly from China, collected by Ford, David, etc.; Aster nom-Belgii L., 

 and variety, ^s^er panicuZa^MS Lam., and Astei' vimineus Lam., all from 

 Massachusetts ; 1057 species plants, mostly European, from Herbarium 

 of Geo. Curling Joad. 



G. W. Holstein, through Thos. Meehan. 59 species plants, collected in 

 Texas, Arizona and Southern California, in 1883. 



L. J. Wahlstedt, of Christianstad, Sweden, through Robert Nordbloem, of 

 Philaria. A collection of Scandinavian Characeic, consisting of 31 species 

 and numerous varieties and forms. 



John Donnell Smith, of Baltimore. Md. Hieracium Marianum, Willd., 

 from Garrett Co., Md., formerly confounded with H. Gronoviilj., now 

 restored by Gray ; 26 species plants, collected by him in southern United 

 States, in 1884. 



Thos. C. Porter. 19 s)pecies plants from New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 



H. J. Hunt, U. S. N., of the Arctic Relief Search Party for the survivors 

 of the Jeannette, through Chas. E. Smith, of Philadelphia. 10 species 

 Arctic plants, collected in 1882, near the mouth of Lena River, Siberia. 



