270 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [octoper 
So much for the Institute; but a great deal might be added as to 
the Garden and its greenhouses, which are rich in interesting plants* 
Classic plants are a Chamerops humilis L. var. arborescens, 9.5" high, 
planted about 1585, and visited September 27, 1796, by Goethe, 
wherefore it is known as ‘‘Goethe’s palm tree;”’ a Zecoma grandijiora 
Del., admired by Goethe for its beautiful flowering ; a very old Viler 
Agnus-castus L. (about 345 years old); an Araucaria excelsa R. Br. 20° 
high, kept in a special greenhouse; many very beautiful trees (Gymmo- 
cladus Canadensis Lam., Gingko biloba L., Diospyrus Lotus \.., Carya 
oliveformis Nutt., etc.). The greenhouses also are furnished with beat 
tiful plants, among them an Astrocaryon Chonta Matt., a Cycas circinalis 
L., a Cycas revoluta Thunb., a Pandanus utilis Bory, a Livistona 
australts R. Br., many Cactaceee and Orchidee. 
More than 5700 plants are cultivated in pots, to which we must add 
110 old trees in the open air, 412 younger trees and shrubs, and 26 old 
greenhouse trees. — J. B. DeTon1, Padua, /taly. 
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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MY HERBARIUM. 
Crataegus Sauratonae, n. sp.— A small tree 3-4” in height, with 
oval crown and ascending or spreading branches, the branches gen 
erally very crooked, as well as the slender twigs; twigs ash-grJ : 
color, and armed, though sparingly, with stout gray oF reddish 5 50 
the twig of the season glabrous and red-brown : leaves glabrous, = 
long, obovate or elliptic, or rhombic-ovate, acute and see oe 
above the middle, mostly entire towards the narrow base, with © 
or four pairs of prominent veins ; the slender petiole 0.5~* and 
stipules, bud scales, and floral bracts not conspicuously en : 
early deciduous: flowers in rather small glabrous phe 
entire, lanceolate, glabrous ; pedicels 1.5-3™ long, ete ; 
fruit about 12™" in diameter, or more ; styles four oT yi 
North Carolina; on the tributaries of the Neuse river, : 
and along streams in Caswell county, N. C.; growing with 
L., the white oak, and shag-bark hickory. del gia” 
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Crataegus wirits 
: i : storiche ¢@ °° 
For the accounts of these see R. de Visiani: Di alcune meee oli me 
dino di Padova. Padua, 1856.— G. B. DeToni: Alberi € fruticl 
giardini di Padova, Padua, 1887. 
