NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
BOTANY. 
RBARIUM FOR SALE.— The collection of the Swiss botanist, the 
late n fi r sale at the Jardin des Plantes, i 
Paris. This collection is of inestimable value, and embraces the 
E ea The author has worked upon it with rare pa- 
from whom this information is derived, believes the Herbarium to be 
awe at the low price of 30,000 francs. Propositions from those 
wishing purchase would be gladly entertained. Parties may 
address (post-paid) Dr. HENRI DE Saussure, Genthod, près Genève, 
Suisse. 
RN NEW TO OUR Fiora.—I enclose a specimen of a fern 
yas in July, in shaded wh i Berlin Falls, N. H., which I judge to 
be Aspidium fragrans Sw. (Gray’s Manual, p. 598). As this fern is 
mentioned as occurring only in Wisconsin or high northward, the 
remarkable that bare plant has not been before detected in so frequent- 
eS a locality. 
found Aspidium aculeatum in a place called “the Gulch,” about 
oe miles from Gorham village; but this I believe has previously been 
“soni in the mountains. This gulch is an interesting place, where ice 
remains during the summer, and I regret that I had not time to ex- 
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engaged chiefly in looking for lichens, aia I found, at ad 
ees an interesting plant, Biatora lucida, which is p 
new to the White Mountain region. This pretty lichen is quite com- 
mon 
giving it a very lively pencapnace, This lichen, I be- 
