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delight in recognizing them. By this year he 

 had also many floral namesakes, and a mountain 

 peak in California called after him by Dr. Parry. 

 Three different genera were named for him: 

 Grayia, Hook, and Arn., in 1841, a genus of the 

 Chenopodiaceae, Asagraea, Lind., in 1839, and 

 Asagraea, Baill., 1870. The two latter are not 

 now in good standing, having been reduced. 



Among the species are: Notholaena Grayi, 

 Poa Grayana, Cyperus Grayi, Rhynchospora 

 Grayi, Lilium Grayi, Oreobroma Grayi, Silene 

 Grayi, Anemone Grayi, Ranunculus Grayi, Saxi- 

 fraga Grayana, Potentilla Grayi, and many oth- 

 ers. These are all North American plants, but 

 others are not limited to North America. 



There was scarcely a society of note which did 

 not claim Gray as active or honorary member or 

 give him honors. He held the Edinburgh 

 LL. D., the Oxford D. C. L., the Harvard M. A. 

 and LL. D. 



After his return from Europe in 1887, he 

 meant to write some account of the old botanists 

 he had seen in his earliest visits; he " also took 

 up work on the Vitaceae, for the Flora." 



Thanksgiving Day came and he went into Bos- 

 ton to the family dinner, though a slight cold 

 and fever troubled him. On Sunday, though 

 poorly, he came downstairs and wrote a long 

 letter to Dr. Britton concerning the naming of 



