782 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1886, 
America, that we know of. But having done some 
while ago the Gamopetale of Pringle’s interesting 
North Mexican collection, |] am now switched off to 
the same in a hurried collection made by Dr. Palmer, 
in an unvisited part of Chihuahua, in which very much 
isnew. One after another those Mocino! and Sessé 
plants turn up. Also those of Wislizenus, whom the 
Mexicans for a time interned on the flanks of the 
Sierra Madre. 
We are bound to know the ‘botany of the parts of 
Mexico on our frontier, and so must even do the work. 
Pringle goes back there directly, with increased facili- 
ties, and will give special attention to the points of 
territory which I regard as most hopeful. 
release,” our most hopeful young botanist, — es- 
tablished at St. Louis, —is here for a part of the win- 
ter, to edit a collection of the scattered botanical pub- 
lications of Engelmann which Shaw pays for —or at 
least pays for to a large extent. He would have the 
plates and figures, and that will double the cost and 
the sum Shaw offered to provide. We may have to 
sell some of the edition in order to recoup the 
charges. . . 
Yes, you hit a blot. I can see to all my own books, 
such as the “Synoptical Flora.” But, somehow, I 
cannot restrain the publishers from altering the date 
of their title-pages ims aise iii off a new issue 
from the stereotype pla 
1 Josef Mariano Mocino. Was on the coast of California in 1792. 
Botanized in Mexico, especially in the northern part. His drawings, 
brought to arin a adteie the death of Sessé, were left with Aug. Pyr. 
de Candolle. When suddenly reclaimed they were copied for him 
by the united labors of the ladies of Geneva. 
illiam Trelease, St. Louis; professor of botany at Washing- 
ton University, and director of Missouri Botanical Garden. 
