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library: Mr. Harry G. Wolfgang, Leetonia, Ohio, Rev. A. B. 
Hervey, Bath, Me., Mr. W. C. Fishlock, Tortola, B. W. IL, 
Mrs. Adele Lewis Grant, Missouri Botanical Garden, Professor 
E. T. Bartholomew, Madison, Wis., and Dr. J. N. Rose, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 
After repeated efforts to find the plant in flower and not sub- 
mersed by the tide, on September 10 of this season Dr. F. W. 
Pennell was successful in obtaining Hemianthus micranthus with 
its corollas expanded. This diminutive member of the figwort 
family grows in the gravelly tidal flats of the Delaware River 
above Camden, New Jersey, and its remarkable flower-structure 
has not been described from fresh corollas since the days of its 
first discovery by Thomas Nuttall over one hundred years ago. 
Hemianthus micranthus is the only northern member of a con- 
siderable West Indian genus, the various species of which show 
interesting steps in an evolution from a flower similar to that of 
most of this family to such as our own, a species which truly 
deserves the name of Hemianthus, ‘‘half flower.” 
Meteorology for August.—The total precipitation for the month 
at the New York Botanical Garden was 4.13 inches. The 
maximum temperatures for each week were 92° on the 8th, 8434° 
on the 11th, 95° on the 24th, and 84° on the 29th. The minimum 
temperatures were 55° on the 3d, 52° on the oth, 60° on the 19th, 
and 53° on the 28th. 
ACCESSIONS 
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM 
500 specimens of European flowering plants. (By exchange with Oxford Uni- 
versity.) a 
100 specimens of flowering plants from the United States and Canada. (Col- 
lected by John Macoun. 
1,000 specimens of flowering plants from Mexico. (Collected by Brother 
Arséne.) 
3 specimens of mosses from Venezuela. 
National Museum.) 
I specimen of Selaginella apus from New York. (Given by Dr. W. A. Murrill.) 
(By exchange with the United States 
