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  6 
  BOTANICAL 
  GAZETTE. 
  [January, 
  

  

  cus, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  entire 
  absence 
  of 
  a 
  stylopodium. 
  In 
  Eulo- 
  

   phus 
  the 
  carpels 
  are 
  decidedl}^ 
  dorsally 
  flattened, 
  the 
  seed- 
  

   face 
  has 
  a 
  broad 
  and 
  shallow 
  concavity, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  coni- 
  

   cal 
  stylopodium. 
  Donnellsmithia 
  differs 
  from 
  Museniopsis 
  

   in 
  its 
  tall 
  and 
  slender 
  caulescent 
  habit, 
  foliage 
  characters, 
  

   the 
  absence 
  of 
  a 
  stylopodium, 
  and 
  its 
  more 
  flattened 
  carpels. 
  

   In 
  fact, 
  the 
  low 
  depressed 
  acaulescent 
  habit 
  o( 
  Museniopsis, 
  

   and 
  its 
  foliage 
  are 
  strikingly 
  different 
  from 
  the 
  new 
  genus. 
  

  

  Explanation 
  of 
  Plate 
  II.— 
  Fig. 
  1, 
  the 
  whole 
  plant: 
  fig. 
  2, 
  a 
  single 
  

   umbellet; 
  fig. 
  3^ 
  a 
  single 
  fruit; 
  fig. 
  -i, 
  croes-section 
  of 
  the 
  fruit, 
  in 
  which, 
  

   however, 
  the 
  pericarp 
  is 
  too 
  thick. 
  

  

  Craivfordsville^ 
  Indiana. 
  

  

  Leo 
  tesqnereax.^ 
  

  

  Four 
  names 
  will 
  ever 
  stand 
  first 
  in 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  American 
  

  

  James 
  and 
  Aus- 
  

  

  tin. 
  The 
  last 
  of 
  the 
  four 
  passed 
  a^A^ay 
  on 
  the 
  25th 
  of 
  Octo- 
  

   ber 
  last. 
  Sullivant 
  in 
  1873, 
  Austin 
  in 
  1880, 
  James 
  in 
  1882, 
  

   Lesquereux 
  in 
  1889--S0 
  the 
  sad 
  list 
  of 
  our 
  losses 
  runs. 
  Not 
  

   only 
  as 
  the 
  pioneers 
  in 
  bryology 
  will 
  the 
  names 
  be 
  associated 
  ; 
  

   the 
  four 
  were, 
  and 
  will 
  be 
  in 
  memory, 
  Unked 
  together 
  in 
  com- 
  

   mon 
  study. 
  From 
  1848 
  till 
  Sullivant's 
  death, 
  Lesquereux 
  

   and 
  he, 
  living 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  town, 
  were 
  most 
  intimately 
  asso- 
  

   ciated 
  m 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  mosses. 
  Sullivant 
  assisted 
  Austin 
  in 
  

   the 
  determmation 
  and 
  issuing 
  of 
  the 
  Musci 
  Appalachian!. 
  

   l;inally 
  Lesquereux 
  called 
  to 
  his 
  aid 
  James 
  in 
  the 
  prepara- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  the 
  Manual 
  of 
  the 
  Mosses 
  of 
  North 
  America. 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  four 
  Lesquereux 
  reached 
  the 
  most 
  advanced 
  age. 
  

  

  HewasbornatFleurier,Neuchatel,Switzerland,Novemberl8, 
  

   1805, 
  just 
  fiveyears,therefore, 
  before 
  our 
  ovvn 
  Gray. 
  His 
  par- 
  

   ents 
  were 
  of 
  Huguenot 
  lineage 
  and 
  educated 
  their 
  son 
  for 
  the 
  

   Church. 
  1 
  his 
  plan, 
  however, 
  was 
  interfered 
  with 
  by 
  lack 
  of 
  

   means, 
  and 
  at 
  nineteen 
  the 
  young 
  man 
  was 
  forced 
  to 
  earn 
  

   his 
  own 
  money 
  by 
  teaching 
  French. 
  At 
  twenty-four 
  he 
  be- 
  

   r 
  .7v"?rlf 
  't. 
  ^^^ 
  La 
  Chaux-de-Fon'ds 
  in 
  the 
  can- 
  

  

  chat 
  el 
  

  

  

  Gazette 
  

  

  the 
  task 
  

  

  dwells 
  chiefty 
  on 
  his 
  bryological 
  work. 
  

  

  