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generic rank, naming under it two species. This we judge 
to be the name under which all except one of Dr. Watson’s 
species of Lesquerella ought to have been ranged, when they 
were separated from Vesicaria. 
The little plant which we have known as Vesicaria Les- 
curii is doubtless a good monotypical genus; at least, this 
has been our own mind ever since we studied it many years 
ago, in its native soil near Nashville. The dedication of this 
unique crucifer to the venerable Professor Lesquereux could 
have been a worthy compliment to him in his declining years. 
But to have given him a new name in Latin, calling him Les- 
querus, was rather worse than unnecessary. Learned authors 
had long ago, as they supposed, settled it that Lesquereux in 
Latin should be Lescurius; but our author evidently failed 
to perceive this, even while handling the familiar specific 
genitive Lescurii which, of itself, should have been enough 
to determine Lescuriella to be the proper writing of the 
generic name. 
SKETCH OF THE LIFE or THURE KUMLIEN, A. M. 
In scientific life, as in other spheres of intellectual activity, 
there is the man who has the tact to make his name, before 
he dies, a household word throughout the land that gave him 
birth ; and, there is also his fellow, of equal mental acumen 
and moral force, who lives as long, labors as zealously and 
learns as much, whom still the unscientific world beyond the 
circle of the man’s friends and neighbors, never hears of. 
Ordinarily it is the difference between one who looks first to 
himself, to his own fame and promotion, making his science 
. ! Gray, Gen. Illust. i. 162. 
