66 FloricuUural and Botanical J^otkes. 



region; botanized in Mississipi, Tenessee, Kentucky, Ohio, 

 Illinois, Virginia, New York, and Pennsylvania. In August, 

 179G, he embarked for Amsterdam, in the ship Ophir: this 

 vessel was wrecked on the coast of Holland, in October, and 

 part of his collection lost. In December, he arrived at Par- 

 is, with what he had saved. Michaux labored with untiring 

 zeal, and his researches were attended with great success. 



Subsequently, Frazer, Michaux the younger, author of the 

 Sylvia Americana, Pursh, Kin, a German nurseryman and 

 collector, Nuttall, Dr. MacBride, Rafanesque, Mr. S. B. 

 Buckley, and Rev. M. A. Curtis have explored the regions 

 visited by Dr. Gray aud his companions. 



We have not room to follow Dr. Gray in his excursion: he 

 set out from New York on the 22d of June, and did not re- 

 turn till near the end of July, the intermediate period having 

 been devoted to herborizations among the mountains. For an 

 account of the botanical information which Dr. Gray and his 

 companions gathered together, we must refer the reader to the 

 article itself, which occupies forty-nine pages. [Silliman^s 

 Journal, No. 85, 1842.) 



Undescribed Plants of Central Ohio. — In the same number 

 of the Joiirnal above quoted from, we find a notice of three 

 new plants from Central Ohio, described by Mr. S. Sullivant. 

 They are as follows: — 



wS'rabis patens — inhabiting the Sciota River, near Colum- 

 bus, Ohio. Fedia umbilicata — around Columbus; and Ele- 

 ocharis compressa — on the Darby plains, fifteen miles from 

 Columbus. 



Two plants which Nuttall discovered in his travels to the 

 Arkansas, and supposed to be nearly or altogether confined 

 to that region, Mr. Sullivant states are also natives of Central 

 Ohio; one is the showy Erysimum arkansanum JVutt., ihe 

 other, the Eulophus americanus Jfutt. Dr. Short has also 

 detected them in Kentucky. — Id. 



Seedling Chrysanthemums. — The Pennsylvania Horticul- 

 tural Society, at its meeting of the 16th of November, award- 

 ed its premium for the best American seedling chrysanthe- 

 mum to R. Kilvington, The committee who awarded the 

 premium remark, that the prize seedling is decidedly the finest 

 variety ever presented to the Society, "of a beautiful ranun- 

 culus form, and shaded pink color:" another very good seed- 

 ling was shown by Mr. Kilvington, of a bright orange color. 



