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this plant, inasmuch as all its leaves are constantly by threes, 

 except occasionally one or two sets of opposite ones near 

 the summit; these names, however, seem applied to very dif- 

 ferent species from the present; and we, therefore, venture to 

 dedicate this handsomest of the genus to one who is deserved- 

 ly placed at the head of American Botanists. 



(3) Hydrophylhnn *macrophyllum, Nutt. See Jour* Acad. 

 Nat. Sciences, Fhila. vol. vii. p. Ill, 1834. Mr. Riddell, in 



the Synopsis above alluded to, has introduced this speci s un- ^ 



der the name H. hispid um, which is entirely in consonance 

 with its character: but as Mr. Nuttall's name is prior, it must 

 be adopted. 



(4) Houstonia ? This plant has always been considered 

 by us the H. longifolia, Willd. and numerous correspondents 

 to whom we have sent it under that name, have received and 

 acknowledged it as such. Among these, Professor Hooker, in 

 remarking on it as if, longifolia, says " it is exactly what I 

 have so called in the Botanical Magazine, No. 3099." That 

 figure, however, plainly refers to H. ciliolata — a plant pro- 

 fusely abundant on the denuded hills around the Blue-licks, in 

 ihis state, and the knobs back of New-Albany, Indiana; where- 

 as our present species has occurred to us only among tie rich 

 debris of the limestone cliffs bordering the Kentucky river; 

 where, rooting deeply in the fissures of the rock, it forms dense 

 clumps of considerable magnitude, with numerous semo-pros- 

 trate stems a foot long. 



Unless, therefore, luxuriance of growth has given to it an 

 aspect very different from that of specimens which we have 

 received from other portions of the Union, as if. longifolia, 

 we are inclined to consider our species distinct, but without 

 more thorough investigation we do not pronounce it so. 



(5) ixia Ckinensis: This pretty exotic now so generally 

 met with in our gardens under the name of "black-berry lilly," 

 is becoming abundantly naturalized in this state. In the west- 

 ern part of it, we observed, last autumn, one locality espe- 

 cially, where it had spread from a garden to a considerable .Hs> 

 tmce both into the adjoining barrens *nd timbered land. 



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