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other author has described a genus Calanthera. We have a suspicion 
that the “Kth.” is a slip of the pen, and that the name is really Nuttall’s, 
— by him to a specimen in the Hookerian herbarium. . But if this in be 
Mr. 
ae applies the name of “ Lasiostega vores Rupprecht (ined.)” to 
No. 250, which he had before called a Trio The plant is undoubtedly 
a male Buffalo-Grass, But no genus Lassa is found to be pulses, 
as its most interesting feature, a regular transition from the foliage to the 
pe of the flowers. Dr. Engelmann notes that the glumes are wanting 
of the spikelet. The latter eee 3 of three to five flow rs, of which the 
lowest flower and sometimes the next are poate al or ae mentary, from 
one to three succeeding ones & are staminiferous or ¢ ees according to 
h 
floral structure of the order, the pan of which is by no means settle¢ 
yet. Dr. Engelmann’s three excellent ee displaying all the details of : 
the flowers, will facilitate this investigatio 
The youthful Academy of Natural Becuce of St. Louis is rel inaugu- 
rating its public career by publications of such character as this paper, 
and the more elaborate Monograph of Cuscuta by the same author, wack 
in bs 
during the past nea, in ei Cumber! Mountains 
eastern part of shepemencanden he ledge of a dripping 
