- XI. NO. 4.—BOTANICAL GAZETTE.—APRIL, 4188 
New or rare plants,' 
ASA GRAY, 
Hibisens incanus Wendl. Doubting the sulphur colored or 
straw-yellow petals, I referred this species to //. lasiocarpos 
Cay, in Proc. Am. Acad. xxii, 302. But I find that Dr. Chap-_ 
_ man well knows the yellow-flowered: plant, and I have noy 
received it from Alabama, from F. J. Muller through Prof 
‘Meehan. Chapman’s character is a goo a 
passed some dried specimens for a form of H. Moscheut 
which it much resembles. -I have confirmed H. lastoca 
_ Nay. for the hairy-fruited species, by referring to the origi. 
“hal im herb. Jussieu at Paris. I here record the rehabilita- 
tion of H. incanus, because in 
Rurmerously and 
degce in 188 
wholly distinct species. 
Hieracium Howellii. 
This paper, marked “ Bor. Gazerre,”’ was found lying upon Dr. Gray’s study tone 
