BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 63 
Schweinitz and American Hepaticw.—The paper on Schweinitz as a my- 
cologist, in the February Gazerre, suggests his relation to the study of Ameri- 
can Hepatice. Michaux was the earliest writer on this group, describing 13 
species, five of which were new (Flora u, yeas but Schweinitz published the 
first work devoted entirely to the hepatics. The work is now deste Seen, hav- 
ing been printed at Raleigh in 1821. Its full title is as follows: “ Specimen 
Flore Americ Septentrionalis Cryptogamice sistens Museos Hip ‘ha usque in 
Am. Sept. observatos.” As its title indicates, the work is entirely in Latin, and 
contains in its 27 pages descriptions of 77 species, of which 12 are regarded as 
new, if we include Turgionia orbicularis! which had been partially described by 
Michaux as Jungermannia orbicularis, Of these, 58 belonged to the single genus 
Jungermannia, not broken up then, as now, into.so many genera. Of the eleven 
-deseri as new, one, Riccia lutescens, has remained unchanged ; one, Jungerman- 
nia elypeata, remains a ee clypeata, Sulliv., while the remainder, viz., 
unge igepie ciliifera, J. distans, J. bipinnata, J. platyphloien, J. transversalis, J. 
ga, J. sinuata, Ga sell Cees and A. jungermanioides are consigned to 
the “lowship of other synonyms which so ay mar(k) American botany, 
esenting, as they do, an over ardent ambition ry Sakae ae by sufficient 
cilia a ——Lucren M. iSite it tb Use ae sity. 
n this connection it seems appropria y that Mr. Eugene 
ree ie that Schweinitz was jek in 1780, not 17 794, as ere Pohneace GAZETTE 
It weas taken up and potted in September, 1883, when it had some 15. It has 
now (January 28, 1884,) between 50 and 60, and fully 30 have been picked from 
it—N. T. Kipper, Milton, Mass. 
- Missouri dl oi aganaaa latifolia has six and seven stamens in all the 
plants I have seen 
Alpes glabra ein always has seven leaflets in our plan 
us Muhlenbergii is a large tree here, sometimes proving to the height 
of 60 or 70 feet, with a circumference of 10 feet at the foo 
Sulix lucida grows very tall here, sometimes reaching ot height of 60 feet, 
and is very abundant along the Missouri river ; the flowers at the base of the 
ament have 6 to 9 stamens, while those of the apex have but five. 
Verbena stricla with leaves whorled in threes, often in fives, with flowers 
white, blue, purple, or rose colored, are not uncommon 
ium integrifolium has the leaves often in aa: 
icus tus occurs with cream colored flowers. 
——— tricorne flowers abundantly here; on one specimen were counted 
43 blossom: 
Diosseay villosa has three cotyledons in our plants 
Vernonia Noveboracensis often has white flowers. —-Faank Busu, Independ- 
ence, Missouri. - 
'Notothylas orbicularis, Sulliv. 
