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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. 

 lenticularis merens, Howe and C. Emmonsii dis- 

 tincta, Howe. 



He claimed the hybrid character of Carex 

 Sulllvantii, 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 Arm 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. 



