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grapes, in my Medical Flora and my monograph of our American 
nes. 
49. Many of our American botanical authors appear unknown to 
ou. LE lliott’s Flora of Southern States, Torrey’s Flora of Northern 
States, Bigelow’s Flora Bostoniensis, Haton’s Hino of American 
Botany, my Flora of Louisiana, 1817; and many m 
At the es fear of the work, nine genera are ie ded as not 
reducible to natural orders. I have long investigated this subject, 
being a follower of natural orders, and never pear find = a = 
that I could not refer to them; because, whenever a genu 
be united to asia it must form the type of a i daily By: itself 
Thus, you have many orders in the book with only one genus: 
these nine could have been nied, so just as well. Indeed, Decandolle 
has made an order of Ceratophyllum. I could state the affinities of 
all those mentioned a d the many errors in joining genera to 
ns which the plant is ae referred ig the copyists of errors. 
Botany will never be permanently fixed until all errors are exploded 
and corrected. 
C. S. Rarmzsque, 
Professor of Botany and Natural History, Philadelphia, Jan. 1831. 
SHORT NOTES. 
GAGEA FASCICULARIS IN WorcrsTeRsHIRE. — This plant was first 
found in Worcestershire by the Rev. Dr. Cradock, then President 
of the Worcestershire Naturalists’ Club, in 1855, in the parish of 
Mathon, on the western side of the Malvern mee and eidan a few 
yards of the Herefordshire boundary. It was still there in fair 
quantity in 1858, but after that time was ssdeesinall by the plunder 
of collectors” (Botany of the Malvern Hills, ed. 8, p. 108 ), and finally 
disappeared. From 1878 onwards I have many times carefully, 
hough ohisionasatully, nemeehadk the locality; but last year it was 
found by Mr. W. H. Jones, of Malvern, about a quarter of a mile 
distant from the original habitat, but in the county of Hereford. 
Eh 
a) 
several small patches of the pla Se 
apparently see | wild.—Ricuarp F’. ecw 
Salix HE —Foliage specimens of a willbe which I believe 
to be S. hoe hha (S. alba X pape eg have been sent me by 
. Salmon, which were gath r. J. G. Baker ath 1883 
by the high Sead between Shap and cad as this hybrid is not 
