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of Rensselaer County, a Record of the Phaeno- 

 gams and Vascular Cryptogams, recording 1,345 

 species and varieties. He also wrote the descrip- 

 tive article on the New York species of Carex 

 (48th State Museum Report), describing a new 

 species, Carex Seorsa, and two new varieties, C. 

 lenticular is merens, Howe and C. Emmonsii dis- 

 tinct a, Howe. 



He claimed the hybrid character of Carex 

 Sullivantii,Boott(Botan. Gaz., February, 1881), 

 now generally admitted. 



In 1892, seven years before his death, he lost 

 the use of his limbs and became a helpless, but 

 cheery, invalid, his wife and sons and daughters 

 all helping by bringing plants and making his 

 herbarium. Music, too, whiled away many a 

 long hour, and a past generation will remember 

 one of his songs, The Old Ann Chair, which 

 London took up and sang with America; while 

 the musicians of both armies during the Civil 

 War enjoyed The Wanderer's Dream. This mu- 

 sical mycologist, after seven years of physical im- 

 prisonment, was liberated into the larger life on 

 the ad of March, 1899. 



Bull, of the Torrey Botanical Club, May, 1899. Charles H. Peck. 



