128 The Botanical Gazette. [March, 
THE DISENTANGLEMENT of Quercus Texana Buckley, by Dr. C. S. 
Sargent, is recorded in Garden and Forest (Dec. 26). Described first 
in the Mexican Bound as a variety of se 
the absence of nuts the tree cannot well be distinguished from Q- 
rubra. bark 
and winter buds and leaves resemble those of Q. coccinea, but the 
leaves have the axillary tufts of hairs so characteristic of those of 
palustris, a fact which doubtless explains the constant reference to that 
i would be well for botanists to look into the oaks of their 
vicinity and of their herbaria and see whether they do not recognize 
ment of the death on February 27th o oh . Redfield, the 
widely known curator of the Herbarium of the Philadelphia Academy 
of Sciences. M field was in his eightieth year s remains 
