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To the Cabinets — from N. E. Atwood, of Province town ; 

 L. J. Jolinson ; Joseph True ; Josejoh Osgood ; Nathaniel 

 C. Robhins. 



Letters from several individuals among which one from 

 N. E. Atwood, tendering a specimen of Cnjptoccmthodes ma- 

 culatus, were read. This fish is called, the spotted wry-mouth 

 and is first described by Storcr in his Report on the Fishes 

 of Massachusetts, who coni-idered it a species new to the 

 fauna of the State. It is still considered to be rare and the 

 collection of the Institute are under much obligation to Mr. 

 Atwood for his donation. 



Geo. D. Phippen being called upon gave a description of 

 the plants collected by his party. Mr. P's acquaintance with 

 their habits, uses, and ornamental value under cultivation 

 render his remarks very interesting. Of these he noticed 

 the occurence of very beautiful and highly colored Cypripe- 

 dium acaule, and the rare instance of one with a j)ure white 

 flower: — the forefathers cup (^Sarracenia purpurea) then 

 found in bud ; the exquisite bog-plant, the Arethusa bulbosa 

 representing in delicacy and fragility the orchidaceous plants 

 of the hotter regions of the globe ; the so considered root- 

 parasite on the Comandra umbellata with its very long 

 white creeping root stems and its elegant umbels of small 

 white blossoms, lo\'ing the loose soil that covers the flat 

 rocks in dry woods : the pale glaucous fumitory ( Corycla- 

 lis glauca) well adapted to the garden and making itself 

 a pleasant home in its borders for many years. The follow- 

 ing list comprises the other sijecies noticed by the several 

 parties, viz : 



Oldenlandia cserulea, 

 Hypoxis erecta, 

 Viola pedata, 

 Viola blanda, 

 Aralia nudicaulis, 

 Hieracium venosum, 



