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genus Carya. Again, in the fame volume, — that for 

 1789, — there is a N. Gen. Anonymos, minutely defcribed 

 in feveral pages, which is no other than Thcjium umbella- 

 tum, L., afterwards diftinguifhed by Nuttall as his genus 

 Comandra. Again, under Anonymos, Yellow- Sandbind, 

 there is a full defcription of what Nuttall after named 

 Httdfonia tomentofa. The fame volume fhows that the 

 author had anticipated Prof. Gray in referring Orchis 

 Jimbriata, as it was called by Purfh and other botanifts, to 

 O. pfychodes, L.; and the remark is alfo made that O. 

 lacera Michx., — which Muhlenberg and our other writers 

 had miftakenly referred to O. pfychodes, till Dr. Gray cor- 

 rected the error, — muft be a new fpecies," which it then 

 certainly was. Again, there is another Anomolos defcribed 

 at length, which is the fame afterwards conftituted by 

 Nuttall his genus Microjlylis. So Campanula humida 

 (Cutler mfs.) is what Purfh defignated, long after, C. 

 aparinoides. Again, in another volume (for 1800), he 

 anticipates Purfh by propofing for our water-fhield the 

 name Brafenia ovalifolia ; and, in yet another, he is before 

 Bigelow in defcribing as a new fpecies what -the latter, 

 many years later, publifhed as Prunus obovata. This may 

 fuffice to indicate the merits of the botanift of Ipfwich 

 Hamlet. A little fhrub-willow, with clean, fhining leaves, 

 and modefl catkins, — inhabiting, almofl everywhere, the 

 alpine regions of the White Mountains, and gathered by 

 him there, before any other botanift had penetrated thofe 

 folitudes, — flill reminds us of his name, which deferves to 

 be remembered by his countrymen. 



