1830. | Botany, 443 
With what Wichura said about the position of the stigmata, I 
cannot agree. First, the carpophylls are not lateral, but anterior 
and posterior, corresponding the one with the gland, the other 
with the scale ; this I think is generally known, though I find it 
nowhere mentioned, and then I found in all our species the stig- 
mata, corresponding with the carpophylls, and even in those 
European species (S. caprea, aurita, cinerea, viminalis), in which, 
according to Wichura, the stigmata correspond with the suture. 
The ovary of the Cruciferæ hasa septum and the stigmata corres- 
pond with the placentæ, which run along the sutures. o 
of Salix has no septum, the stigmata correspond with the pla- 
centæ, which are in the middle of the base of the carpophylls— 
Fred. Brendel. 
ADDITIONS TO A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF Borany.—I send you 
some additional notes to my historical sketch, which appeared 
in the December and January numbers of the NATURALIST, with 
some corrections suggested by Dr. Engelmann. Dr. G..-Engelmann, 
was born in February, 1809, and went to Missouri in 1832, resid- 
ing in St. Louis since 1835. He knew Jos. Frank, in Heidelberg, 
1827, where he was known under the nickname “ plant hyena !” 
In 1835, Engelmann collected in Arkansas, and he thinks that 
Beyrich went there with Gen. Leavenworth. In Texas, Berlandier 
collected in the year 18 34. Lindheimer came to West Texas in 
1844. From Dr. Parry I learn that he published in Owen’s Re- 
port, 1852, pages 606-622, a list of Iowa and Minnesota Plants 
collected in 1848. 
Dr. Thos. Coulter’s collections made in California in 1831-32, 
were published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 
Vol X. page 59: Notes on Upper California, communicated by 
Dr. Thomas Coulter, read March oth, 1835, contains a map and 
itinerary. He met Douglas at Monterey, Nov., 1831, made a trip 
across the Colorado desert to the junction of the Gila and Colo- 
rado rivers, in spring of 1832. On his return to Eng and, he 
Was appointed Curator of the Herbarium, at Dublin, and died in 
1840. This note I owe to Dr. Parry.—Fred. Brendel. 
THE Fiy-rrap, irs Frrsr Discovery.—The fly-trap (Dionea 
musctpula) has lately been much spoken of; so it will be interest- 
ing to learn when this plant was first made known. John Ellis, 
(1711-1776), a London merchant, received in 1769, from Phila- 
delphia, the plant and described it with drawings in “ Directions 
for bringing over seeds and plants from the East Indies and other 
distant countries, ina state of vegetation, to which is added the 
figure and botanical description of Dionea muscipula,” London, 
1770. The same gentleman published in 1771, “ Copies of two 
letters to Dr, Linnaeus and Mr. W. Aiton,” containing descriptions 
and drawings of two other North American plants, /éditeum Jlor- 
tdanum and Gordonia lasianthus.—Fred. Brendel. 
