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distinct from Fedia: 47 species are described, arranged under -_ main 
sections, the fifth, Siphonella, Torr. & Gray, being acknowledged as 
wholly intermediate between Valerianella pach Fedia. Analytical — 
trations are given in the plates of all the > re ve the rare = — 
tallii, which is ons wut a state of V. do 
10. Scolo opendrium officinarum, the ReleTtngas Fern of Bibope was 
first made known as an America plant z poo in his Flora, 1814, 
1818, gives the habitat, “In the western parts o of the State of New 
York, in the crevices of culodreoks rocks beneath the shade - the Hem- 
lock Spruce (Abies Canadensis) and accompanying the Zarus Canaden- 
sis or American Yew ;” his appended v. v. implying that he shed himself 
seen it alive. No specimen of his is extant; but from some source, not 
now recollected, it. would appear that his station was near Canandai- 
” which is nearly one hundred miles west of Onondaga. Between 
30 a nd 40 years ago, the late William Cooper discovered the Perrorg at 
Chittenango Falls, 20 or 30 miles east of Onondaga; and this has re- 
mained the onl ‘really known station of the plant in ees America, 
until the recent discovery of another (in 1857) at Owen Sound on Lake 
Simcoe, by si of. Hincks of Toronto. 
dee 
it seemed to be os lentiful. ie are indebted to the. lucky discoverer for 
a dried specim 
11. Musci Porbie Americani, sive Specimina Exsiccata Muscorum in 
Americe Republicis resales detectorum ; conjunctis studiis W. S. 
Sutxivanr et L. Lesque Editio Godweda: Columbi Ohioensium, 
sumptibus Auctorum, 1865. —The first edition of this most important 
the sets were almost immedi- 
Musco 
(mean cha: the second edition now before us. This bears the 
date of 1865, the tickets and other letter-press having been printed a 
year ago. But the sets are only now issued (April, 1866), other engage- 
— ress d prevented Mr. Les Sera from giving his whole time dur- 
Ing year to completing their preparation, which has been a long 
Am. Jour. pi —Serconp Serims, Vou. XLI, No. 123.—Mar, 1866. 
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