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appear to be only introduced plants along our southern coast. Frcelu 

 cliia (Oplotheca, NutL) has three North American species. Phyllepi- 

 dium of Rafinesque is not identified, and probably never will be. 



The remaining family, Nyctaginacece, includes eighteen genera, in 

 three tribes. Of Mirabilis, though no species are credited to us, we 

 have one or more in Texas, as well as the three species of Nyctaginia, 

 Choisy. Of Oxybaphus, six North American species are indicated ; and 

 the Peruvian Aliiona incarnata comes also from California. Four spe- 

 cies of Abonia are described, besides A.? (Tripterocalyx) micrantha, 

 Torr., which Dr. Torrey has since raised to the rank of a genus. 

 Pisonia aculeata is found on Key West. Boerhaavia furnishes us 

 three or four species; and there still remain some undescribed Texan 

 representatives of the family. A. Gr. 



2. Catalogue of Plants, Native and Naturalized, collected in the vi- 

 cinity of Cincinnati^ Ohio, during the years 1834-1844; by Thomas 

 G. Lea. Philadelphia, pp. 77, 8vo. 1849. — The circumstances un- 

 der which this posthumous publication has been made, from materials 

 which, had Mr. Lea's life been spared, would have assumed a more ex- 

 tended and important form, are thus briefly stated by Mr. Sullivant, in 

 the preface. 



" Few botanists have more thoroughly investigated the vegetation of 

 their immediate vicinities than did the late Thomas G. Lea that of Cin- 

 cinnati. This is apparent not so much in the large number of plants 

 here enumerated and determined with singular accuracy, as in the co- 

 pious and valuable observations attached to the specimens in his Herba- 

 rium. These observations, had life and health been spared to complete 

 them, would have appeared in the form of a local Flora — a work for 

 which years of assiduous study of the plants of Southwestern Ohio 

 had well fitted him. 



" The following Catalogue, however, is all that he left ready for pub- 

 lication ; with the request that Mr. J. Carey, of New York, or myself, 



should see it through the press. In the Phsenogamous portion no 

 changes have been made other than in the nomenclature, rendered ne- 

 cessary by the advance of the science since the period of his decease. 

 During the last three or four years of his life, Mr. Lea was zealously 

 devoted to the study of Fungi : and his collections in that department 

 will be found a highly valuable contribution to the mycology of the 

 United States. Mr. Lea died of an autumnal fever, on the 30th of 

 September 1844, at Waynesville in this State, where he had been pas- 

 sing a few weeks, making, as these pages will attest, many new and 

 rare collections in the adjacent valley of the Little Miami river. In 

 accordance with his wishes, all the specimens of Fungi were submit- 

 ted to his correspondent, the Rev. M. J. Berkeley of England, by 

 whom alone they have been determined and prepared for this Cat- 

 alogue. 1 ' 



The Phanerogamous plants, Ferns, Mosses, and Hepaticce, appear in 

 the form of a naked Catalogue. The account of the Lichens, prepar- 

 ed by Mr. Tuckerman, is enriched by some critical remarks by this skill* 

 ful Lichenologist, and by the characters of three new species of Lich- 

 ens proper, namely Verrucaria subelliptica, Parmelia Leana, and P. 

 hybocarpa, and of a Collemacea, viz., Leptogonium corticula, to which 



