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of position; also to he e seeds os raising the plant; for this 
species is not in cultivation. Our two Eastern species should 
likewise < examined in “ahis regard. 
8. Botanical Necrology of 1877.—This contains an aenidiel 
number of noted names. e following are the principal. 
Mrs. Marra Eva Sar widow of the late Dr. J. E. wee 
tra R 1872, a cryptogamic penn of. much 
SHEDS died fapaasy 22, 187 7, in his 71st yea 
WitHetm HormetsTer, Professor at Tiibingen, a most. distin- 
he rea anatomist, died, January 12, 1877, in the 53d 
year of his age s death was noticed in last year’s necrolog 
ALEXANDER n, Professor of ge, died, 4 at Berlin preys 
er. 
OURGEAU, one of the best and most persevering botanical 
collectors of our da , who crossed the American continent at the 
north with sy el ‘and made his. last collection in Mexico dur- 
at the age o 
Hue = nN WEDDELL, English i in birth, French by adop- 
tion, author of a hi He Chloris Andina, and of monographs 
of the Urticee, Podostemacee, and. Cinchona, a first-class rere 
Solna, died in August last, of heart-disease, at the a age ° 
PO 
aad author of a Flora Helier er a pe 0 the 
ber 9, at the age of 6 
Prof, thease ot author of a Botany of the Southern 
United States, died i in case last, at the age of 73, An obituary 
hotice appeared in the December pte 3 of this Journal. a. ¢. 
9. I. Desmidiee et CEdogonice ; by O. Norvsrept and V. 
ITrRock. If. Bohuslinds CEdogonieer. IL. Nonnullee ae 
aque dulcis Brasilienses ; by O. NorpsTEDT.— —The three papers 
just named appeared in the Proceedings of of the Academy of Sci- 
ence of Stockholm, rang each is accompanied by a plate. e 
Species described the first named paper were collected by 
Am. Jour. foxTn, on Vou. XV, No. 87.—Manrcu, 1878. 
