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_ plished bryologist.. He was born at Franklinton, a little village near 
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the site of the present city of Columbus, Ohio, in e eraduat 
at Yale Colleg 3. In 1840 he published ‘‘A Catalogue of 
Plants in the Vicinity of Columbus,” and two years afterwards de- 
eribed three new species of Phanerogams in rican Journa 
of Science and f e then turned his Fon ge to the Mos: 
and in 1843 issued, in two quarto vols., the ‘‘ Musci lagtaaienan 
actual specimens with riptions of the Mone of the Alleghan 
of 
Mountains. This was followed by the ‘“ Contributions to the Bryology 
of North America,” in the Memoirs of the American Academy for 
1846 and 1849. The second edition of Geavin ‘*¢ Manual of the Botany 
of the North United States” was enriched by a compendious account 
of the Mosses from Mr. Sullivant, illustrated by eight plates ; this was 
omitted from subsequent editions of the Manual, on the un derstanding 
that a separate account should replace it. The published sets of 
Mosses named by Sullivant comprehend the Musci Boreali Americani 
of Sullivant and Lesqueraux, issued in 1856; Bolander’s Californian 
species, in 1865; Austin’s Musci opalachiani, Wright’s po 
hb. pias ‘ , 
(Mont.) Nyl.; Graphis prank Ach., f. minor; G. tenella, Ach. ; 
; hypoglauca, Krphb., spec. nov.; Verrucaria ochraceo-flava, Nyl. ; 
V. tropica, Ach.; Pyxine Cocoés, '(Sw.) Tuckerm.; Lecidea lygea, 
i . p . ’ . 
h.; L conspersa, Fie, sorediifera; L. internigrans, Kr v 
pec.; Buellia nigritula, (Nyl.); B. discolor, Hepp. ; tied ge 
Sprengelii, sane diducta, Krphb., spec. nov. ; P 
nov. 
picta, (Sw.) Nyl.; P. erispa, (Pers.) Nyl.; eee 8 ae. 
rphb., spec. L. subfusea, Ach., var. ‘& f. intermedia, & var. 
chlarona, Ach., f. microcarpa, Krphb. ; Gyrostomum scyphuliferum, 
(Ach.) Nyl.; Parmelia perlata, Ach.; P. conspersa, (Ehrh. pone 
r. Mougeotii, Schaer. ; P. mutabilis, Tayl. ; vaeee au acum, 
var. flavovirescens, ( Wulf, 3 Aspicilia Achar var. 0 ceoferrugines, 
(Schaer); Limboria ac ostoma, ; Bottaria sinensis, Hpe. et 
abenh., spec. nov. The price is 5 shale (15s 
Wanted to purchase good specimens of between 300 and 400 of 
the rarer British —— to complete a collection. Apply to J. G. 
Baker, Kew Herbar: 
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