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Gaultheria procumhens, L. Common ; on the New York 

 side I have found it only near Fordham. 



Gerardia Virginica (L.), E. S. P. Not uncommon ; it occurs 

 opposite only at one station on Manhattan Island on the bank of 

 the Harlem River. 



Teucrmm CanadensBy L. Quite common ; on the opposite 

 shore I have met with it only on Ft Washington Point 



Asclepias verticillata, L. Common; on the New York side 

 I knew of a single station for it where it is now extinct 



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Andropogon provincialis, Muhl. This is the only grass I 

 have met with on the Palisades which is not well represented on 

 the opposite side of the river, where It occurs at only one local- 

 ity. It is frequent along the top of the diffs. 



Eugene P. Bicknell. 



Riverdale, N. Y. City. 



Gentiana alba, Muhl. 



A gentian, discovered many years ago, by Dr. Gray, during 

 a botanical trip through the mountains of West Virginia, was de- 

 scribed and pubhshed by him in the Am. Journal of Science as 

 G.flavida, but in the first edition of the Manual it reappeared as 

 " G. alba, Muhl., Cat ! " with the statement, that, although the 

 name is inappropriate and the giver of it has left on record no 

 character of the plant, he regards the two as identical. Among 

 the synonyms cited is the G. ochroleuca, Frcel, of the Flora Ces- 

 trica (ed. 2), and Dr. Darlington, following such high authority, 

 supplants it by G. alba, Muhl, in the subsequent editions of his 

 work. Now, strange to say, the specimens in his herbarium at 

 West Chester, Penn., prove that he was right in the beginning. 

 They are all G. villosa, L. {G. ochroleuca, Froel.). The same is 

 true of the citation from Torrey's Flora of New York (ii. 106). 

 Dr. Torrey expressly says that he had seen no specimens of the 

 plants he describes, but his description, with its " obovate leaves 

 and wingless seeds," clearly indicates G. ochroleuca, Froel. Hence, 

 G. alba, Muhl., should be dropped from the Catalogue of the 



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Torrey Club. 



In Muhlenberg's Catalogue (ed. 2), under Gentiana, occur 



these three species: " 2, Saponaria, L." — which is probably cor- 



