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A small supply of sound ripe seeds, received by the writer, have been 
disposed of to the’ best advantage fo ensuring their germination, after 
is more soko Gees span is little tet as their shape 
is clavate, no rhaphe is apparent, and the seed-coat is thin, loosely cellu- 
lar, and beset all over, less thickly at the attenuate base, with spreading 
an stout, almost scale-like, licen agro The characters drawn from 
rosa; rhaphe inconspicua : tegmen tenue, ad cee attenuato- 
apiculatum, Emb yo parvulus in basi albuminis granuloso- siete ; 
tadicula cylindrica ; cotyledonibus perbrevibus. 
- Botanical Gullections in the ky Mountains.—The botanical: oe 
ers of this Journal are familiar with the results of Dr. Parry’s reconnoissance 
of the mountains of Colorado Territor ry, at and beyond the mining district, 
last year, that is, in the summer of 1861. The limited collections he then 
made being much in demand, and his desire for exploration _ men 
Dr. Parry tevisited this interesting region early last summer (1862,) ac- 
companied Messrs. E. Hall and me P. Harbour, the a mtg 
; i in the mountain pion until siete on foes purpose 
se are 
f0 the sedulous labors of his associates, Messrs. Hall and: Harbour. 
Most of Ol the species collected in 1861,—often too scantily for general 
distribution—haye now been gathered anew, and many additional ones 
4 secured, some of them of great rarity or novelty. 
Hall and Harbour likewise collected the more rapes. plants of the 
Plains of <A ange . siwege a enumeration of the plants collected, 
with chara of ne cies, &c., now in preparation by the present 
Writer, ry intoediausly va publi shed. 
Principal collections of the joint expedition, distributed into sets 
under Messrs, Hall and Harbour’s tickets, extend to 695 numbers. These 
Sets will = ena by the addition of from 50 to 100 « or more alpine 
Plants f ® special collection of Dr. Parry, distributed under and in 
the invation of his former numbers; so that, in the whole, the flora of 
e 
are nearly complete and full, aa pet fered at eight dollars the 
‘itdred numbers. ‘The remainder fall off to 600 or 500 numbe 
n 
be addressed to to Mr. Elihu Hall, Athens, Illinois, or especially to jonss A. 
“ray, pambridge, 
ser ater Serres, Vor. XXXV, No. 103.—Jar., me 
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