226 The Botanical Gazette. [June, 
suits, and as early as 1861 he built a greenhouse with his 
own hands and stocked it with plants. For two winters he 
had a class in botany in Ashland, and he was always ready 
to take his friends on a tramp, and instruct them in the se- 
crets of the plant world and of nature generally, in a most 
delightful and unassuming manner, as those who have been 
with him abundantly testify. Through his own collecting and by 
purchase he acquired a large herbarium of North American 
phenogams, which was especially rich in aquatics. He al- 
ways had a preference for flowering water plants, and in this 
branch he was an ardent student, besides having a wide know- 
ledge of botany in general. He was preeminently a field-bot- 
anist, and it was a familiar sight to see him tramping off to 
his favorite ponds and streams, armed with his box and 
dredge. His keen observation, mature judgment, and wide 
knowledge of his subject combined to produce work of the 
highest order, and Dr. Morong holds a most honorable posi- 
tion as a systematic botanist. : 
During the botanical expeditions which he made from time 
to time he studied the flora of many of the eastern states, and 
his name is familiar in almost all of our local floras, as well as 
in our leading botanical papers, which are enriched by his 
valuable notes especially on the aquatic vegetation. The oF 
der to which he gave the most attention was the Naiadace®, 
and his name will always be associated with the genus Pot 
mogeton, one of the most difficult, but to him most fascinat- 
ing of studies. Not only did he investigate these plants 
thoroughly in their native haunts in pond, river and stream, 
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but he carried on an extensive correspondence hi ae 
can and European botanists in regard to them. It a wee 
ter of congratulation that after so many years of honest, the 
Scientious work, he at last published in March, 1893, i of 
Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, ‘‘The N ais 
North America” with illustrations of every species. t to 
work attracted much attention, and is a fitting monumen 
the author who died so soon after its publication. — 
In 1888, Dr. Morong carried out a plan which of his 
change completely the current of his life. This move 
: : ften 
confidential friends that he must do something ee lants 
and he longed to go to South America and collect PY 
through the great water-ways that intersect t 
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