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arctic and seemingly abnormal form of S. Sophia, with permanently 
Ee ieviated racemes. His father’s description of the pods, as 2 inches 
or more in length, is indirectly contradicted by his figure of the plant 
“ of the natural size,” in which the pods scarcely exceed an inch. This 
is about the length in an arctic specimen, collected by Dr. Seemann, in 
which the axis of the racemes is bar sre nnn lengthened. In it and in 
some Himalayan specimens o ophia, the seeds s appear to be oblong 
instead af ow as they are in the Canadian (introduced) and Eu- 
ropean p 
Whi, pe with our present materials, we should acknowledge 
these four species in North America, we could not affirm that they are 
strictly circumscribed and definable; and it is quite likely that ni res 
might deem the discrimination hopele ess, 
4. The Case of Plants ; by Richarp AntHony Satissury, a R S., 
ete. ee a containing part of Liri ame. ; hendea.: Van Voorst. 
ten thousand pounds in the three per-cents from a very old maiden lady 
of that name, who made him her heir. He died in London in March, 
1829. In his turn he proposed to more than one botanist to leave to 
him his library and his Sorta ts DeCandolle, as he tells us for one— 
on the condition of assuming the name of a ury. He actually left a 
pr t of his property and his mss. to the late Dr. Burchell. Since ae 
ae death, two years ago his sister cane over Salisbury’s Mss. 
sions, soos it ea. perhaps ~~ been ieatible to expunge.” But if 
ne oo at all, it strikes us that there was no other 
arm can now come of it. Pleurothalle is 
Salisbury mo for sf sacha and Liriogame, for the petaloi- 
deous or non-glumaceous Monocotyledones, The fragment relates prin- 
ay to Liliaceous and Amaryllideous genera, and is very curious and 
ing. It must of course be insisted tha : se mp Genera Plantarum 
are not to be burdened with the synonymous which here first see 
the hh. g. Xeniatrum for Rafin nesque’s Clintonia, Neolexis for Smi- 
&e. The interest of this opuscula is solely historical and ‘eritieal 
We could wish that the able editor had put upon record a general ac- 
count of what Salisbury did for botany. 
