508 ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM. [1881. 



Dr. J. H. Brinton. Pestle, Cooper's Creek. Camden, N. J. 



Harriet M. Harned. Indian relic, Oxford, Adams Co., I'a. 



Otto W. Lowe. Stone axe (serpentine), Uock Is-land, 111. 



riants. — Win. M Canby. Five hundred and tiftytwo species of plants from 

 Europe, S Africa, Australia, Madeira and N. America. 



Isaac C. Martiudale. Turnera aphrodisiaca Ward. Mexico. Mentzdia crocea 

 Kell., Calif. Trunk of Quercus heterophyUa Mx., from Mt. Holly, N. J. Ellis' 

 N. American Fungi, centuries V, VI and VIII. 



Hugh D. Vail, Los Angeles, Calif., through Benj. N. Marsh. Echinocaclus 



Wislizeni Enzelm., Arizona. Twigs and acorns of Quercus Widizeni var. 



frutescens Engelm., Cal. Twigs and acorns of Q. dumosa Nutt, Cal. Twigs 



and acorns of Q. ohlongifolia Torr., Cal. Twigs and acorns of Q. agrifolia 



Nees, Cal. Flowering specimens of Eucalyplus obliqua (.?), cult, in Cal. 



Dr. J H. Eckfeldt. One hundred species of Lichens from Northern U. States, 

 mostly new to the collection, with catalogue ; pod of Ilymenira Courharil, 

 from West Indies. 



Thos. Meehan. Corallorhiza Mertensiana Bong., AVashington Terr. ; Pachystima 

 Canbyi Gr., cult, from plants found at Wytheville, Va. ; Salisburia adiantifolia, 

 in fruit, from Wisiar's garden, Germantown ; Arceuthobium ocadentale var. 

 abietinum Engelm., Washoe Valley, Nevada.; Phoradendron Junip erinum \a,r. 

 Libocedri Engelm., Washoe Valley, Nevada. 



Isaac Burk. Fruit of Ckrysobalaniis oblonyifolius, raised from seed by Mrs. 

 Caroline Pennock, Delaware Co., Pa. ; stem and root of Aristolochia tomentosa 

 Sims, cultivated. 



R. P. Smith and .J. Jay Smith, of Germantown. Phila. ; specimens of Euca- 

 lyptus globulus Lab., cult, in Cal. ; E. amygda/iiia, cult, in Cal. ; E. rostrata, 

 cult, in Cal. 



Chas. F. Parker. One hundred and seventy-five species of N. American plants 

 from his herbarium, maoy of them new to the collection. 



Two ladies, unknown. Collection of Marine Algag, mostly from N. York 

 Harbor, beautifully mounted and superbly bound ; prepared for Charles M. 

 Wheatley. by Saml. Lounsbury, of N. Y. 



M S. Bebb, Rockt'ord, III. Herbarium Sah'cum, Fascicuhis primus, being the 

 first instalment of what is intended to be a full suite of the North Am' rican 

 Willows, with such European forms as m:iy aid in the understanding of their 

 afiinities With full printed tickets and manuscript notes, accompanied 

 often with magnified drawings of tlie floral organs. 



Dr. S. B. Buckley, Austin, Tex;is. Clemafis coccinea, Englm. ; Berbiris Swayzei 

 Buckl. ; Ampelopsis quinquefolia Mx., var. heptaphylla Buckl. ; Siyrax platini- 

 folia Engelm. ; Quercus Dwrandi Buckl., series of specimens showing varia- 

 tions of foliage ; Quercus rubra L , var. Texensis Buckl. ; all from Texas. 



Prof. C. S. Sargent, Commis-ioner of Forestry Department of Tenth Census of 

 U. S. Series of specimens of N. American woods, showing transverse and 

 longitudinal sections and bark, all named at the Arnold Arboretum, Cam- 

 bridge, and numbered to correspond with Prof. Sargent's Catalogue of Trees 

 and Shrubs of N. America. 

 M. Carey Lea. A large collection of plants, consisting, first, of species col- 

 locted by him in vicinity of Philadelphia ; second, of species collected by Dr. 

 Engelmann, Prof. Tuomey, and others, in Western and Southern States ; 

 third, of species of European plants, collected by Prof, Balfour, of Edin- 

 burgh. 

 Harriet M. Harned. Fungus (?). 



J. P. H. FTuit of the great flowering Mimosa, Bombay. 



Dr. Geo. Vasey, Agricultural Department, Washington, D. C. Twenty species 



of grasses, collected by the Wilke.s Exploring Expedition, years 1838 to 1842. 



C. Mohr, Mobile, Ala. Specimen of the rare Darbya umbellata Gray, staminate 



plant, near CuUmann, Ala. 

 Geo. E. Davenport, Boston, Mass. Tsenitis lanceolata R. Br., a fern new to the 

 U. S., from Old Rhodes Key, Florida. 



