B. D. GREENE. 



When we wrote our article on Cyclomyces Greenii, we admitted 

 that we did not know the identity of the "Mr. Greene" for whom it 

 was named. Our ignorance in this respect has shocked the editor of 

 the Torrey Bulletin, and he has kindly enlightened us. Our best thanks 

 are tendered to Mr. John Hendley Barnhart for the information, as 

 follows : 



"Benjamin Daniel Greene was the son of a man who, in his day, was 

 known as the wealthiest citizen of Boston, Massachusetts. He was born at 

 Demerara, British Guiana, during a visit of his parents to that place, 29th De- 

 cember, 1793, and died at Boston I4th October, 1862. He was a graduate of 

 Harvard ; completed his education in Europe, and qualified himself for both law 

 and medicine, but never engaged actively in the practice of either profession. 

 He was a personal friend of Sir William J. Hooker, and many of his speci- 

 mens are at Kew, as well as in nearly every other important herbarium of his 

 day. He was one of the founders of the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 and its first president ; his herbarium formed the nucleus of the great botanical 

 collections of that society. For seventy-five years and more an oriental genus of 

 Rubiaceae, Greenea, has borne his name ; it was named in his honor by Wight 

 and Arnott, at a time when it meant something for two English botanists to 

 name a genus for an American. I am sure you would be interested in the 

 opinion of Asa Gray concerning the nature and extent of his botanical attain- 

 ments, which you can find in the American Journal of Science (Series II, vol. 

 35, pages 449 and 450. 1863), or in Gray's Scientific Papers, edited by Sargent 

 (vol. 2, pages 310 and 311.)" 



THE REV. C. TORREND, S. J. 



REV. C. TORREND, S. J. 



The sympathies of the mycological world should be extended to 

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