BOTANICAL GAZETTE. y 4 | 
where Pinus Banksiana was thickly coming in, supplanting P. 
resinosa. 
€ evening stroll proved of sufficient interest to induce a 
stay for another day at Escanaba, and take in a wider circuit, 
south and west of the town. The land is quite level, and soon 
becomes swampy, with low sand ridges interspersed. Among 
the more interesting plants noticed, and not seen at the south end 
of the lake, may be mentioned Carex trisperma, Dew., C. flava, 
L, (in place of which we have the allied C. Qderi, Ehrh ), abun- 
dant in the wet meadows, Eriophorum vaginatum, L., the first 
erally find that at first it was hardly recognized as the same 
ies. Some of the stems were seven inches high, with linear 
or lance-linear leaves, and the flowers nearly half an inch in dli- 
ameter (7-16 inch by measurement). Itis evidently var. interme- 
ag, Gray, but with larger flowers than indicated in the descrip- 
Hon in the Manual. Some mosses were gathered, among which 
Was Mnium serratum, Brid. 
George Bentham. 
wig? Zournal of Botany, for December, gives a short account 
ee (with portrait) of this very distinguished botanist. It is pre- 
ae by Mr. B. D Jackson, Secretary of the Linnean Society, 
“hl Mr. Bentham was President for 13 years (1861-1874). 
“tae ntham had one very great advantage in his life work, his 
hi oe family arrangements being such that he could devote 
u Mhole time systematically to the study of botany. The sali- 
