1887. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE, 197 
A list of the more common native and: naturalized plants of South 
Carolina. In South Carolina Resources and Population, Institutions and 
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so, short notices in Torrey Bulletin, vi, 88; ix, 23,128 and 140; xi, 
132, A paper on edible mushrooms of this country read before the 
Aiken Vine growing and Hort. Ass. about 1862-63; was printed in the 
Charleston newspapers of the day. W. y 
- EDITORIAL. 
SINCE THE consolidation of the national surveys the government has 
done nothing for botanical exploration. Millions have been spent in in- 
creasing our knowledge of the other riches of our domain, but the plants 
have been left to private enterprise. It has been claimed that the botan- 
ical exploration of this country has been well-nigh completed, but that 
can only be said by those ignorant of the facts. What botanist does not 
know that a collector in a single season’s work still brings back with him 
his harvest of new species and increased knowledge of the old? Hun: 
dreds of new species are being described yearly in this country. A sin- 
gle contribution, now on our table, describes 160 new species. In the face 
of all this wealth of undiscovered material, in view of the fact that ge- 
ology, anthropology, ete., are receiving abundant aid, why does botany 
lack the fostering care of government appropriation ? Money is appro- 
pration for botanical exploration, to be under the direction of the already 
“ppointed botanical agency, the Department of Agriculture. The herba- 
“lum of that department should be enriched by the results of such ex- 
Ploration, until the North American flora is completely represented in 
common property of all. Collectors should be sent to unknown or diffi- 
Cult localities to work throughout the season; local botanists in interesting 
