Geology and Natural History. 393 
His other published writings mainly are “A Commentary on the 
Natural History of Dr. Hawks’s ‘ History of North Carolina” ”— 
a good specimen of his appreciation of exact research and of sharp- 
ness of wit wholly free from acerbity ; two papers in “ Silliman’s 
Journal” on “ New and Rare Plants of the Carolinas ;” and 
botanical portion of the “ Geological and Natural History Survey 
of North Carolina,” in two parts ;—the first, a popular account of 
the trees and shrubs, issued in 1860; the other, a catalogue of all 
the plants of the State, in 1867. This includes the lower Cryp- 
togamia, especially the Fungi, of which he enumerates almost 
2,400 species, while the Phenogamous plants are less than 1,900. 
All our associate’s work was marked by ability and conscientious- 
ness. With a just appreciation both of the needs of the science 
and of what he could best do under the circumstances, when he 
ble and ieee publication ; but he was unable to find a pub- 
$ 
of food. During the hardships of the Rebellion, he turned his 
knowledge of them to useful account for his family and neighbor- 
hood; and he declared that he could have supported a regiment 
upon excellent and delicious food which was wasting in the fields 
and woods around him. ? 
oN Francis Sprine, Professor of Physiology in the taneho® 
ear 
: was t 
Lycopodium and Selaginella, which was published thirty years 
4go In the memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Brus- 
wo 
Ta 
ings of the American Academy for June, 1872, being a part of the 
Council’s report : 
Hugo yon Mohl, the acknowledged chief of the vegetable anato- 
Mists of this generation, died on the first day of April last. He 
was born at Stuttgard, April 8, 1805, the youngest of four brothers 
who all became men of mark in political and scientific life; Julius 
the orientalist and Hugo the botanist being the most distin- 
guished. The latter was educated at the Stuttgard Gymnasium 
