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the caption "Notes on the Genus Yucca/' Englemann 

 has the following to say: "Within the past two years 

 an unpretending physician of South Carolina, Dr. J. H. 

 Mellichamp, who does not even claim to be a botanist, 

 but is imbued with arduous zeal and keen sagacity and 

 who lives right among the Yuccas, has wonderfully im- 

 proved his opportunities, and has very greatly aided me 

 in my investigation by specimens as well as by his ob- 

 servations. I may add here that also on other families 

 of plants of his rich State, already so long and well 

 known through the labors of a Walter and an Elliott, 

 have his researches shed new light as will appear in 



future pages of these transactions. 



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**Dr. Mellichamp's notice of a minute drop of glutin- 

 ous liquid in the tube formed by the coalescence of the 

 so-called stigmas led me on to further experiments. 

 That tube proved to be the real stigma, exuding stig- 

 matic liquor and insects (in these night-blooming flow- 

 ers, of course, nocturnal insects) must be the agents 

 which introduced the pollen into the tube." 



Under his treatment of the **Coniferae," he says at 

 the conclusion of his description of Pinus Elliottii, 

 Engelm, New Species: 



"P. Elliottii was imperfectly known to Elliott and 

 was considered by him a form of P. Taeda. Later bot- 

 anists ignored it, till Dr. J. H. Mellichamp, of Bluffton, 

 S. C, rediscovered it about ten years ago, and directed 

 my attention to it. Without his diligent investigations, 

 ample information and copious specimens, this paper 

 could not have been written. * * * j ^^^ partic- 

 ularly indebted to Messrs. Bolander, Brewer, Parry, 

 and Lemmon for their contributions of the Californian 

 and Rocky Mountain Conifers, and to Messrs. Canby, 

 Oilman, Ravenel, and Mellichamp for those of the 

 Northern and Eastern American Pines." 



Sargent in his Silva of North America says of Dr. 

 Mellichamp that ''he rendered substantial service to 



