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and also exemplified in ee sets of Soa Euphor- 
ina (in the fourth volume of the Pacific Railroad Reports, and 
in the Botany of the Nokian Houndae: Sagittaria and its 
allies; Callitriche ; Isoetes (of which his final revision is probably 
hopes pu ublication), and the North American Loranthacee; 
to. which Sea gine groups of Gentiana, and some 
other genera, would have to be added in any complete enumer- 
ation. Revisions of these gees were also kindly contributed 
tinued and ‘most conscientious study. The same must be ee 
of his persevering study of the North Americah Vines, of 
which he at length recognized and characterized a dozen 
species,—excellent subjects for his nice discrimination, and 
tifically of our species and forms of Vitis is directly due to Dr. 
Engelmann’s she! stag His first separate publication upon 
them, ‘ The e Vines of Missouri,” was published in 186 
his, last, a reélaborstion of the American species, with figures 
of their seeds, he third edition of the Bushberg soaks: 
oO 
t — whole time to botany have accomplished as much 
rolls of most of the societies devoted to the investigation of 
nature, that he was ‘everywhere the Hoa Begs authority in 
those departments of his favorite science which had most inter- 
ested him,” and that, personally one of the most affable and 
kindly of men, he was as much beloved as respected by those 
who knew him 
More than fifty ‘years ago his oldest associates in this coun- 
try—one of them his survivor—dedicated to him a monot (3 
. ical genus of plants, a native of the plains over whose bo 
