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rst a general = into Finiformes and Gregiformes ; the 
former being those which appear to have no very near surviving 
relatives, i. e. they are very well marked and moderately varying 
species. Those with numerous variations within a common type 
are Gregiformes ; and these again may be distinguished as Loco- 
Sormes, Typiformes, Versiformes, Ramiformes, Avoformes, Medio- 
Sormes, Eyre caahinets Singulifor mes, and a few more,—terms 
ich we have not space to define, which indeed are not to be 
really defined, and nenay all of whieh involve hypotheses. An 
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of Gedaes in hotatitcal denaeratiata which give to botanical 
most repulsive. In the preface botanists are “requested, in case 
they do not approve these aeons to turn their endeavors 
ering But t they are hardly shee up to 
the alternative. Slight eteomaants of the old paths from time to 
time, as need appears, may be more serviceable than os 
labor upon new and untrodden roads. 
3. CHARLES CHRISTOPHER Frost, the oldest ergptoganist in n this 
country, died at pada atta: Vermont, arch 16, 1880. He was 
born in the same town Nov. 11, 1805, and .lived a throughout 
his long life. His father was a pot cue which trade his son 
to 
country about him exhaustively, . saliesting plo os ng in the 
domain of natural science; but he was best wn to the world 
e communicated A site papers to the bin Be of his day 
but his most important seatapit as to ers is a List of the 
patie Liverworts, Charas, and Fungi, in the “Catalogue of 
Rants growing within thirty pie of Kees ” published by 
rofessor Edward Tuckerman and himself in 1875. Or.5,Be 
Am. Jour. Sor.—Tuirp oo VoL, XIX, No, 114.—June, 1880. 
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