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Tamarix gallica, called there saltwater cedar, which helped 

 to prevent encroachments of the sea. Oleander trees of 

 great size bordered the streets, and in the gardens there 

 were noticed orange, lemon, fig and banana trees. 



As a substantial proof that the trip to Texas was not 

 altogether in vain in a botanical sense, Mr. Phippen said 

 he had the pleasure of presenting to the Herbarium of the 

 Institute in the name of Lester F. Ward, Esq., the chief 

 botanist of the party, the collection of plants in the folios 

 upon the table. These specimens have been carefully 

 elaborated and labelled by Mr. Ward, and they are the 

 result chiefly of his indefatigable exertions, as he was 

 ever on the alert and scarcely did the train momentarily 

 pause at a station or elsewhere upon the road from any 

 cause whatever that sundry plants did not find lodgment 

 in his ample portfolios. 



The collection consists of about 370 different species, 

 92 of which are not found in Mann's Catalogue. About 

 one-fourth of the species were collected before touching 

 the soil of Texas, ten or fifteen in Virginia, near Norfolk, 

 about thirty in the vicinity of Nashville, forty or fifty at 

 Looko'ut Mountain in Tennessee, a few on the border of 

 Mississippi and in Arkansas. 



Three-fourths at least of the species were collected on 

 Texan soil, and represent only the fall plants. The flow- 

 ers of -spring and early summer are undoubtedly far more 

 numerous and beautiful. Inspection of the collection will 

 show that one-fourth of these are Composites, about fifty 

 sedges and grasses, many Legumiads and Euphorbiads. 

 The Labiates, Onagrads, Verbeniads and Solonales are 

 well represented. Among the Apetalous orders are many 

 of the trees of the woods. The Rose, Pink, and Ranun- 

 culus tribes have scarce a representative. 



The .following list is nearly perfect. Those marked 



