at4 Ives on a Species of Limoselia. 
the expenses which the transportation and packing of the speci- 
mens may create, shall accompany the letter of advice. 
The objects destined for him may be sent by the common 
modes of conveyance, with a letter of advice; to the following 
address : 
Mr. A. Broxentarr, Member of the Royal Academy of — 
Sciences, Engineer of Mines, etc. Rue Saint-Dominique, Fau- 
bourg Saint-Germain, No. 71, Paris. 
tecnica ait 
Arr. XIV. Observations on a species of Limosella, recently 
discovered in the United States, by Dr. Eli Ives; Professor of 
Materia Medica and Botany, in the Medical Institution of 
Fale College. 
Ts small plant was observed in flower, in July, 18 16, by 
Mr. Horatio N. Fenn, (now of Rochester, State of New-York) 
in company with Dr. Leavenworth. The plant and the seeds 
have been preserved by me, in a flower-pot, from that time to 
the present. The plant was taken a few rods south of Mr. 
Whitney’s gun manufactory, on the margin of the river, where 
it was covered by every tide. I have since observed the plant 
in great abundance, on the margin of the Housatonuck, it 
Derby, and in those small streams in East-Haven, Branford, and 
Guilford, which empty into Long-Island Sound. 
A specimen of the limosella (with some specimens of the 
tilleea) was sent to Z. Collins, Esq. of Philadelphia, who wrote 
me that Mr. Nuttall had found the same plant, a few days pre 
vious to the receipt of my letter, and that they had no question 
on the subject of the generic character, but that it would prob- 
ably prove to be a new species. 
In the transactions of the Medico-Physical Society of New: 
York, page 440, it is described under the name of limosell® 
subulata. A description of the plant was published about the 
same time, by Mr. Nuttall, in the Journal of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (See Vol. I. No. 6. p- 115.) 
