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the diffuse habit of that plant, which, however, has similarly dotted 
braets, and is perhaps the nearest ally. 
10. Zoysia Sinica, n. sp.; foliis involutis, spicis lanceolatis 1-14 
oll. longis 2-22 lin. latis, spiculis laxiusculis subdivergentibus 
3-linealibus oblongo-lanceolatis obliquis acutis.—Ad oras Chine austro- 
orientalis usque saltem ad Amoy. (Exsiec. n. 10155.) 
his species is the only one I have seen from the coast of China. 
Mr. Bentham, in the ‘ Flora Hongkongensis,’ has referred to Z. pungens, 
Willd., which, however, from a comparison of Ceylon and South Aus- 
tralian specimens, appears to me abundantly distinct, by its narrow 
linear spikes and ovate-lanceolate spikelets, only a line or little mor 
long, and so compactly and evenly arranged as to give a tessellated ap- 
pearance to the spike. Z. Japonica, Steud., under which name, with a 
mark of doubt, I have been accustomed to distribute the Chinese plant, 
is much nearer Z. pungens, and perhaps not sufficiently distinct; but 
the spike is broader, the spikelets are borne on long pedicels, and are 
much more laxly arranged, and the leaves are flat, or but slightly in- 
volute. 
HORACE MANN, CURATOR OF BOTANY IN THE BOSTON 
SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
By Wiuiram T. Bricuam, Esq. 
(From the Proceedings of © Boston e of Natural History, vol. xii., 
ovember 18, 1868.) 
It is sad to speak publicly of our private sorrows, but when those 
sorrows touch all alike who reverence the good, admire the brave, re- 
joice over victories in the noble struggle of light against darkness, 
knowledge against ignorance, or who mourn over great efforts uncom- 
pleted, then must we lay aside all thoughts of personal loss, and speak 
each with all of our common grief. 
The youngest officer of this Society has left us never to return. 
Were years alone the test of usefulness and manhood, we might count 
over the few that Horace Mann numbered in his earthly life, regret 
they were so few, and from the full-grown and ripened lives still with 
us, look for his successor. But vainly should we look; where should 
we find in all the years the best of our number could show, a single 
