1876.] Botany. : 489 
/A, AUSTRALIS, n. sp. (A. cannabina Chapman, S. Flora.) Panicled 
spikes of the fertile inflorescence dense, linear-cylindrical ; utricle smooth, 
thin, hardly at all fleshy, acute-angled, little if at all exceeding the im- 
bricated bracts; stigmas setaceous, rather short. Florida, at Apalachi- 
cola, Dr. Chapman ; Biscayan Bay, Dr. Palmer, coll. no. 462. 
(2.) Monret1a Moquin-Tandon. Utricle thin and small (half to 
two thirds of a line long), punctate-rugose or roughish, indehiscent), 
equaled or exceeded by the cuspidate-tipped bracts; stigmas slender, 
filiform, almost plumosely hairy. 
A. TUBERCULATA Moquin-Tandon, in DC. Prodr. A. rusocarpa 
Moquin-Tandon, 1. c, not of Michx. A. cannabina var. concatenata 
Moquin-Tandon, 1. c. Amarantus Miamensis Riddell, synopsis. Mon- 
telia tamariscina Gray, Man., Bot. ed. 2, 370, and ed. 5, 413, partly, 
especially the var. concatenata. River-banks, shores, etc., in the interior. 
Lake Champlain to Iowa and Texas. Sometimes erect, and from one to 
four feet high, sometimes spreading or prostrate in sandy or gravelly soil. 
(3.) Pyxipi-Monrexta. Utricle thin and small, shorter than the 
cuspidate-tipped bracts, circumscissile in the manner of true Amarantus ; 
fertile inflorescence in slender virgate paniculate spikes, less glomerate 
than in the preceding; stigmas similar or shorter. 
A. TAMARISCINA. Amarantus tamariscina Nutt. in Trans. Am, 
Phil. Soc., n. ser., v. 165. Montelia tamariseina Gray, L c., in part. 
Arkansas to Texas and New Mexico. 
Our botanists along and near the seaboard are particularly requested 
to examine the species they meet with, and to send good fruiting speci- 
mens to the writer. The distinctions between A. cannabina and A. rhys- 
scarpa should be especially looked after. The fruit of the former is 
hardly to be found in any of our larger herbaria. Florida specimens of 
any Aenida are much desired. So also are fertile specimens of any 
from Arkansas and Texas, especially of A. tamariscina. Nuttall’s speci- 
mens of this are not even in flower, so that he was unaware that the 
Plant was diœcious and the fertile flowers achlamydeous. Although 
the plant is common in Texas, ripe fruit is little known. — Asa GRAY. 
Lance Erw. — In the second and admirably illustrated edition of Mr. 
Emerson’s classical report on the trees and shrubs of Massachusetts, 
Most of the notable elms in the State are enumerated, and measurements 
given. But one of the noblest, though by no means the largest, of them, 
to which the writer was recently introduced, is not upon the record. It 
‘Sn Boxford, Essex County, not far from the eastern border of Ando- 
Ver, a Stately tree, with a girth of nineteen feet at the smallest part of 
ne trunk below the limbs, and a full top in good condition, except that 
4 few of the uppermost limbs are perishing in the manner of the species. 
Asa Gray, 
asi VULGARIS, THE LING OR HEATHER, REDISCOVERED mn Mas- 
USETTS. — The now.well-known patch of Calluna in Tewksbury, 
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