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BOTANY. 

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Nov. sp. Agaricus (Pleuropus) lagotus. Poly poms brunneolus. 



(Flammula) craesus. lituarius. 

 Favolus platyporus. Thelepliora lamellata. 



Hypoxylon pilaeforme. scabra. 

 Lentinus Wilkesii. 



Bollaert (W.). -Observations on the botany of Texas. — (Proc. 



Linn. Soc. Lond.) — Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. VII. 1851, 

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Bornet (Ed.). Etudes sur 1' organisation des especes qui composcnt 

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Brongniart (Ad. ). Description d'un nouveau genre de graminees 

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Anomochloa (n. g.) rnarantoideai 



Durkee (D.). Massachusetts Algae. Boston. 1851. 4to. (268 



Engelmann (G-eorge). On the character of the vegetation of south 

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Harris (T. W.). On the history and nomenclature of some culti- 

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