1865.] l^l [Gro89. 



and propagation of various plants and trees, which he often watched 

 with the most tender care and the greatest interest. Neither Wil- 

 son nor Audubon ever watched a bird with more solicitude than he 

 his flowers. His garden was spread over several acres, and few per- 

 sons visited Hajfield without an introduction to it. For the more 

 commonplace routine of his farm he had little or no taste, although 

 it was one of the most magnificent in Kentucky. A general super- 

 intendence was all the attention he bestowed upon it. 



Thus were his latter days passed — in the garden in summer, in the 

 herbarium in winter — until about two years before his death, when 

 he was seized with great debility and ennui, and seemed to have 

 lost, in a great degree, his interest in things around him. His last 

 illness was pneumonia, which soon assumed a typhoid form, and 

 terminated his valuable life on the 7th of March, 1863, in the sixty- 

 ninth year of his age. He sank away so quietly and calmly that the 

 friends who watched him scarcely knew when the spirit fled. His 

 remains repose in Cave Hill Cemetery, near Louisville. 



The name of Dr. Short is commemorated by a number of plants, a 

 list of which has been kindly furnished me by Mr. Durand, of this 

 city, himself an able and accomplished botanist. 



1st. Genus Sliortia, founded by Professor Asa Gray, on a plant of 

 the Pyrola family, discovered by Michaux on the mountains of 

 North Carolina. 



2d. A cruciferous plant, Vesicaria Shortt'i, described by Professor 

 Torrey, and discovered by Dr. Short on the banks of Elkhorn Creek, 

 Lexington, Kentucky. 



3d. A leguminous plant, Phaca Shortiana of Nuttall, found in 

 Missouri. 



4th. Aster Shorfi'i, so named by Boott, growing in Ohio, Wis- 

 consin, and other regions. 



5th. SolulxKjo Shortii, of Torrey and Gray, discovered at the Falls 

 of the Ohio. 



6th. Carex Shortiana of Dewey, extending from Southern Penn- 

 sylvania beyond Illinois. 



It will thus be seen that five eminent botanists have paid a just 

 tribute to one whom they honored as an able and indefatigable laborer 

 in the same field of science which they themselves have so earnestly 

 and successfully cultivated. A stronger proof than this of the high 

 appreciation and affectionate regard in which Dr. Short was held by 

 them, could not be afforded. They seemed to have vied with each 

 other to gratify him during his lifetime, and to perpetuate his name 



