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upon this genus, have had frequent occasion to acknowledge 

 their obligations to him ; and he erected for himself a monu- 

 ment of his zeal and devotion, and a testimony to his powers 

 of observation, in his " Carices Americas Septentrionalis Ex- 

 siccatae," the first part of which was issued in the year 1848, 

 the second in 1850 ; while his interest and activity in the 

 study continued with little abatement down to the last year 

 or two. He published nothing else, we believe, excepting a 

 " Catalogue of the Plants growing in the vicinity of Penn 

 Yan " ; but he contributed no little to the value of the pub- 

 lications of others, especially to those of the writer of this 

 notice, and to the "Flora of the State of New York." The 

 Carex which had been dedicated to Dr. Sartwell has proved 

 to be identical with an old European species, but a very dis- 

 tinct and peculiar genus of Compositce found in southwestern 

 Texas, keeps up the name of Sartwellia. His most intimate 

 associate in caricological study survived him only one month. 



