220 MISSOURI BOTANIC GARDEN REPORT. 
Species Plantarum) as ‘the starting point for genera and species,” 
but the name on which our eye first fell was Xylon, w which was 
applied oe Linneus in Gen. Plant. amen) to the plant usually 
known 8 Eriodeydron anfractuosum. In 17538 Linneus called this 
on his own 
principles, Prof. Hitchcock has restored Xylon. The caer 
announcement that ‘‘in this catalogue e the original spelling” 
reference to imate monograph of wild and sohivaie rae 
as also Marshed the Garden with his very extensive botanical 
lib rary. 
A reference to our previous notices of the Missouri Reports 
(Journ, Bot. 1892, 32, 283) will show that these volumes are of 
h 
to this gentleman, ‘‘ who wn the Aindet of the Garden for 
many years,” Mr. tikes ‘ati to immortality is established not 
by his Garden or any of its adjuncts, but by the festal gathering 
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who fills them without money and without price will never be 
It has drawn me to that city more than once. It has drawn the 
forget the giver of their horn and crust. Mr. Shaw’s school ‘ta set 
were near this hospitality. I believe that he tented “tt, and s 
learned how to build a. a live-long monument.” Mr. Shaw's s 
m 
not quite as close to Windibeter as Prof. Butler seems to think 
Sha 
statue recumbent on the lid of hie sarcophagus , but the s 
phagus itself was uncovered. As we stood there I told him that j in 
the heart of the pyramid I had lain down in Pharaoh’s coffin, and 
as I had had the last enjoyment of Pharaoh’ tomb, so, with his 
permission, I would be the first to make proof of his. —and I di 
i “emery I could lie there in his place for ever.’ Did he foresee 
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