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this machine, of which no particular information is given. The plants 
are abundantly to be had, at small j 
r. Squier pays a well-deserved tribute to the late Dr. Henry Perrine, 
who nearly thirty years ago took up this subject with great zeal and 
ability, establishing a plantation of Agaves, &c., on the Cape or Keys 
of Florida, where, just in the inception of the enterprise, he was murdered 
by the Seminole Indians. 
The plates contain lithographs of several sorts of Agave (among these 
one bears the name of A. Virginica, but there is some mistake about 
it, as well as in the expectation that A. Verginica will produce “ useful 
fibres” to any amount), Bromelia, Banana, (called “ Musa rosacea,”) 
: ucet, a couple of Palms, and the Phormium tenax or New Zealand 
ax, .G. 
6. Curices.—The following are determinations, by the author of Illus- 
trations of the Genus Carex, of certain species recently published in this 
Journal, as well as in the Botany of the Mexican Boundary Survey :— 
Carex monticola, Dewey, in Mex. Bound. Surv., p. 229, and in this Jour- 
this country, and a strange plant to find in Western Texas 
C. Haydenii, Dewey, |.c., is the C. aperia of Gray’s Manual. : 
C. levi-conica, Dewey, is the C. trichocarpa, var. 8. of Boott’s Illustrations. 
, Dewey, is C. microdonia, Torr. 
“ C Thurberi, Dewey, is C. hystricina, Willd. 
C. Nebraskensis, Dewey, is C. Jamesit, Torr. 
©. Emoryi Dewey, is a variety of C. stricta, Lam. ; 4 
: F ©. Barbarc and C. Schotii, Dewey, are described from specimens quite 
| °° young for proper determination. 
No. 881 of Fendler’s New Mexican collection is C. Gayana, Desvaux. 
are 131, of which the goodly number of 42 are characterized as 
Rew species, and several others are not less interesting. The specimens 
. of this collection have now been made up into sets, with printed tickets, 
! title-page, é&c., for distribution among the subseribers to Mr. Wright's 
j collection, ts being more numerous than those of the Pheno- 
§4Mous plants (though less so than the Ferns, of which several sets are 
aed a limited number can be supplied to those specially inter- 
| ed in Musculogy, if early application aig Bes 
Columbus, Ohio, ae to Prof. Gray, at Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Sullivant’s 
Published enumeration, with descriptions of the new species, will be sup- 
Plied with the sets. ; 
8. Rocky Mountain Flora: a Collection of Dried Plants from the 
“waters of Clear Creek, and the alpine ridges lying east of Middle 
Park, Colorado T. err., made last summer . Parry, ; —This 
beautiful collection contains a considerable number of species either new 
