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plants. He may find them growing under unusual conditions, 
or out of their recorded range, or some character may be exhil- 
ited which he does not find in descriptions. The things he may 
discover are legion, and the discoveries should be recorded. We 
should be pleased to furnish the medium for imparting them to 
others. 
Now something about MUHLENBERGIA, its origin and name. 
The writer, like many others, had articles to publish, and some- 
times had to do considerable engineering in order to have space 
granted for them, to say nothing of delays in printing. He 
therefore began to plan a magazine exclusively for and by him- 
self. For at least a year before the first number appeared in 
1900, he had decided upon the name. ‘To western botanists 
especially the name of Muhlenburg is scarcely known, but he 
was one of the foremost botanists of the early part of the century 
just closed. His writings were less voluminous than those of 
some of his contemporaries, only two volumes having been pub- 
lished, one the “‘Catalogue” occasionally cited in works on east- 
ern botany, the other the “Descriptio uberior Graminum et 
Plantarum Calamarium,” published in 1817, the year after his 
death. 
He was a Lutheran minister, for many years pastor of Trin- 
ity church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the city in which I had 
my home for about twenty years, where my first love for plants 
and things botanical was engendered, and what more fitting 
than that I should thus commemorate the name of the pioneer 
whose favorite haunts I no doubt visited, and gleaned many 
treasures from the places where he also found his, some of them 
species which bear his name as author. 
Professor P. B. Kennedy, of the University of Nevada, at 
Reno, Nevada, is to be greatly congratulated upon his forth- 
coming monograph of the species of the genus 77zfolzum which 
occur in this country north of Mexico. It is to be not only a 
monograph in the botanical sense, but will also deal with the 
