126 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
And so died John Williamson, on the 17th ae 1884, 
and in the 46th year of his age, “his last conscious ho sae 
in the woods he had loved so well,’ writes . Bierce «an 
friend, adding that the banks of the stream an ‘id have tial 
covered with ferns, and that “I know that if he ag? Jounal 
his choice he would have 3 to die so, if only hl 
ther could have been by his side. : 
a Williamson’s devouion: to his mother was a - 
always spoke of her in terms‘of the deepest prtatee bed ai 
dearment, and if his last conscious thought could vs ould 
terpreted, it must have been for her who by his peg counted 
left alone in her old age without a single relative in t de <n 
though he would have known, too, that loving frien i 
care for and protect her, - : of 
is Nothatds were taken to Louisville, and amid gree a 
utes of flowers and ferns the artist- botanist, ight? wealth ee 
rowing friends, was borne tenderly to his last earthly : 
place in Cave Hill Cemetery, 
Farewell, dear friend! yet not to thee farewell. 
I know that thou art living, breathing still 
o 
Gat 
haunt 7" : 
The woods and streams where all thy loved ferns dwell, 
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t, 
And here in reverence pay this tribute of my heart. 
Notes on the Flora of W. Dakota and E. Montana, Adjacent 
to the Northern Pacifie Railroad*—I I. 
BY JOHN B. LEIBERG. 
The Composite, as mig 
presented. Speci 
only species of this extensive genus pea oe 
epachys pinnata, & ( 
tr» ,Was wholly replaced by L. columnaris, Torr. = 
and its variety Tagetes, Gray. It is curious to noti 
*Read before the Minnesota 
1884. 
Academy of Natural Sciences, March 4, ! 
