62 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
No doubt the sympathy and appreciation Mr. Hall met with 
in his home were potent aids to his success, but no oue can see 
his herbarium and consider the labor, mental and physical, ie 
volved in amassing and classifying without being impressed bi 
the great will power of this quaint, unconventional, manly ¢ ar- 
acter. “His work will not be forgotten or its effects lost. 
Note.—Mr. Hall left his collections of plants, shells and in- 
sects in the care of Mrs. Hall, to be preserved by ber till their 
youngest child is of age; then, if none of the children show 4 
disposition to pursue these branches of study, all are to be dis- 
pose 
. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Bryanthus Gmelini, Don.—One of the most interesting re-discoveries of 
late is that of the above-named plant. Upon Behring Island, where it had : 
long ago been found by Russian collectors, Dr. L. Steineger, U. S. N., last year 
collected a few specimens of this rare plant, which has afforded us an opportu- — 
nity of examining the species. Three views have been held in respect to it. By 
Maximowicz it has been kept as the sole species of the genus; characterized by : 
the 4-merous and octandrous flowers, with rotate and deeply 4-parted corolla. ‘ 
stamens and style soon much exserted; in the other (P. empetriformis), merely 
5-lobed, and stamens included. In the third place, I had brought the whole of 
Phyllodoce into the genus, making it a collective group of three sections. In_ 
this I was influenced by the analogy of Cassiope c 
4-merous or 5-merous, and the corolla varies from 4 to 5-parted to 4 to 5-lobed. 
Now that I have seen the original Bryanthus, 1 should say that either the first 
ge of giving us a genus which may be fairly — 
Dr. Steineger’s botanical 
(the Commander Islands, off 
plants of interest. A. Gray. 
collection from Behring Island and Copper Island 
the coast of Kamtschatka) contains many other 
© purpose of holding plants to mounting paper, as well as for 
tcan be made. It is always read y for use.—Dr. J. H. OvsTER, 
