BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 289 
ha 
e tte in the fall of 1847, his means of subsistence having become ex- 
n the spring of 1849 F. started on another oa red geoegres over the 
western plains. This time he intended to visit the Great Sal » To 
im the year 1849 proved most disastrous, for in ¢ chee plains ay lost, in 
the Little Blue river, by a flood that came suddenly upon him, all his drying 
pe es many other things nee on hi icveadl tour, ss well as his 
principal means of transportation, so that he was forced to wait at Fort Kear- 
ney tor a elur t the latter place, d 
herbarium m as time would pe As soon as e founc that the introduction ot 
i on argin o d lots 
. Plants, as well ues Ferns, Mosses and Fungi. He also paid attention to meteoro- 
logical phenomena, parts of his obse ree being printed in the annual report 
of the Smithsonian astitation for the year | 57. 
aving returned to Mi i F. acquired, in 1864, near Allentown, a tract 
ee assistance of his half-brother, he be- 
Toiling here ven years to improve is new 
Bons estead, he finall iy sold it, in 1871, and left ine Europe in the spring nc 
ing to pay once more a visit to his old home w vith a view to abide there. Ameri F 
a hold 
ore genial clim Tap: 
ina feeble sate a health thin Portots Spain, on the Island of Trinidad, where he 
Plants, as ate pe 
ara er since in making collections of Ferns and Phenogamous 
ty Sa 
were still unso Professo 
g since cade these invaluable, and many botan 
Std Howe his on the 16th of 
* ate should his letters that he left Memp 
Zz uel a 1858, and be Mceaver re oP Beni ear, sailed from oe pi ah Phen” 
subsequent ° extracts from his correspondence given ereafter illustrate 
