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melis as “ Café- rai ti = ie eich as “ Atoca,” but Vacinium 
Vitis-Ideea as ‘ Pom: 
The Herbarium of t the late vin Martius has been purchased for 
30,000 franes by the wi rd oe to form the nucleus of 
a national weno at Brus 
The Michaux Oaks. yeotEhin name is to be applied to a 
renga eh of eka o be hie nted in es — ee 
whic that 
Histoire’ — ep si de V Amerique. The grove is to be main- 
tained by the income of a legacy of $6000 bequeathed by the 
younger Mishasie to the American Philosophical Society, in trust 
for arboric a - kp which legacy is now devoted by the 
is becoming of consequence to United States —— He dios 
several ones new - cies 0 yperuns da few of a. 
& ome 
Generis Astra “li Ps Gen rs roe 
part of this monograph by Prof. Prange of the Old-World species 
almost a thousand in number) of the great genus aan , was 
mentioned in our january number. e have now received the 
completion, poaregre bi the systematic enumeration of the species, 
it and descriptions of most of them, and the A 
The work is oulinhen by the Imperial Academy of St. Petersbur 
this part being the initial number of the 15th volume of its Mé- 
moires, pp. 254.—The succeeding number, of over 300 pages, con- 
sists of —— first o 
Flora aucasi, by Rupprecht, with six plates. It carries the 
work from Ranun culacece ve to —— are 
“eg noice ‘al Address at the anniversary meeting 
Chins year is somewhat briefer than usual, but not less likely t to at- 
: attention. It is mainly devoted to two topics: 1, the results 
obtained from the recent explorations of the deep-sea faunas; and 
