74 Ives on a Species of Limosella, 



the expenses which the transportation and packing of the 

 specimens may create shall accompany the letter of advice. 



The objects destined for him may be sent by the common 

 modes of conveyance, with a letter of advice, to the following 

 address : 



Mr. A. Brongniart, Member of the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences, Engineer of Mines, etc. Rue Saint-Dominique, Fau- 

 bourg Saint-Germain, No. 71, Paris. 



Art. XIV. Observations on a species of Limosella, re- 

 cently discovered in the United States, by Dr. Eli 

 hes, Professor of Materia Medica and Botany, in the 

 Medical Institution of Yale College. 



J. HIS small plant was observed in flower in July, 1816, by 

 Mr. Horatio N. Fenn (now of Rochester, State of New-York) 

 in company with Dr. Leavenworth. The plant and the seeds 

 have been preserved by me, in a flower-pot, from that time to 

 the present. The plant was taken a few rods south of Mr. 

 Whitney's gun manufactory, on the margin of the river, where 

 it was covered by every tide. I have since observed the plant 

 in great abundance on the margin of the Housatonuck, in 

 Derby, and in those small streams in East Haven, Branford, 

 and Guilford, which empty into Long-Island Sound. 



A specimen of the limosella (with some specimens of the 

 tillea) was sent to Z. Collins, Esq. of Philadelphia, who wrote 

 me that Mr. Nuttall had found the same plant, a few days pre- 

 vious to the receipt of my letter, end that they had no question 

 on the subject of the generic character, but that it would pro- 

 bably prove to be a new species. 



In the transactions of the Medico-Physical Society of New- 

 York, page 440, it is described under the name of limosella 

 subulata. A description of the plant was published about the 

 same time, by Mr. Nuttall, in the Journal of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (See Vol. I. No. 6. p. 115.) 



