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which it was at once determined should bear 

 Torrey's name. More recently a congener was 

 found in the noble forests of California. Another 

 species had already been recognized in Japan, 

 and lately a fourth in the mountains of Northern 

 China. All four of them have been introduced, 

 and are greatly prized, as ornamental trees in 

 Europe. 9 So that, all around the world, Torreya 

 taxi folia, T. Californica, T. nucifera, and T. 

 grandis, should keep his memory as green as their 

 own perpetual verdure. 10 



Dr. Gray, being sent away for a cough, made 

 a journey to Apalachicola, Florida, going by 

 Washington, Augusta and Tallahassee, of which 

 journey and his successful search for Torreya he 

 wrote a lively account for the American Agri- 

 culturist, republished in his Scientific Papers. 

 Dr. W. P. Copeland, of Eufaula, Alabama, tells 

 me that " The Chattahooche River, Florida, is 

 said to be one of the two or three places in the 

 world where the Torreya tree grows. It was dis- 

 covered by Dr. Alvan Chapman, of Apalachi- 

 cola, Florida, who lived at the mouth of the 

 river where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. 



9 Arnott's genus was the fourth Torreya, the three earlier ones not 

 proving " good " genera .... but of course it is conceivable that any 

 one of the three might at any time come to be regarded as " good." 

 The name now accepted for Torreya taxifolia is Tumion taxifolium. 

 Of course the name Torreya will undoubtedly cling to the plant per- 

 manently as a semi-popular one. (J. H. Barnhart.) 



10 Letters of Asa Gray, vol. ii. 



