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inal, are from drawings by native artists, who were ignorant of 
price ‘in Pee is most moderate. If the work were to be con- 
tinued, a smaller form, like that of Wight’s Icones ioell “- 
convenient, and more prac ‘ticable. 
8. Th ry (Gaylussacia brachycera Gray) ts is one of 
be rarest att North American plants. The elder Michaux’s habitat 
sin Virginia, near Winchester, but the specimen in his herbarium 
a“ the Jardin «es Plantes, is ticketed “Warm Sprin Pursh’s 
is “ Western parts of Virginia, near eet and the Sweet 
Springs”; and, if I rightly remember, some specimen of his col- 
lecting was ticketed “ Cacapon Monuneiuic” Mublenberg’ 8 speci- 
men, ‘from Matthew Kin, is ticketed “ hes eye) Anglice 
Green-brier. All this relates to the A eghany Mountain region, 
west of the Blue Ridge. I am not aware that any of these stations 
have been rediscovered, or that _any living botanist has seen this 
little evergreen shrub in Virginia. The only available habitat 
known in our time, is the'e one which Prof. Baird discovered, 
fully thirty years ago, in Perry County, near Bloomfield, Penn. 
i ae in the Alleghany region, but more northward. 
rom this station the Botanic Garden of Harvard Univ ersity . 
fortunately still Leave } one or two thriving living plants The 
locality was restricted, and, Prof. Baird informs me, is now prob- 
unexpected district, ray a x Co., in the southern part of 
Delaware. He found it “ while wiikinge along the banks of Indian 
Riven on the edge of a pine forest which here skirts the shore, 
growing under the shade of the Laurel (Kaimia latifolia) on a 
dry sandy bank.” The plants were very sparingly in fruit. We 
hope that this —- shrab will now become more familiar to 
botanists, and that it may be brought anew into cultivation. It 
resembles a dwarf Box. The flowers are rather pretty, but incon- 
spicuous. A. @ 
9. On the preservation of Anatomical Preparations.* — 
Sesemann of St. Petersburg, gives an account in the last number 
of Reichert and DuBois Reymo ond’s “ Archiv fur Anatomie, Phy- 
i etc., of his experience in the use of preserving solutions 
for anatomical preparations, which may be of some interest to 
zoologists, as well as anatomists. 
* Abstract of an article entitled ‘ Ein wre if Conservirung anatomischen 
oe, von me! E. Sesemann in St. Peters 
iv. nat. Phys | etc., Reichert u. Dubois Danie: 1874, No. 6 (pub- 
lished pos 1875), p. 679. 
