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BOTANY. 
GARRY ACEiE. 
Garrya elliptica, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1686 ; Hook. <£• Am. Bot. Beech, p. 390. Rocky 
arroyos, near White Cliff Creek, a tributary of Williams’ River, New Mexico. The specimens 
in the collection were gathered in February, and are all female, in fruit. The leaves of the 
flowering specimens are smaller than the ordinary form of this species, and they are not wavy: 
those of sterile branches are much larger. 
Garrya Wrightii (sp. nov.): foliis elliptico-oblongis utrinque acutis mucronatis crassis planis 
opacis, margine muriculatis; racemis ramosis; bracteis lanceolatis basi connatis interdum 
foliaceis et vix connatis ; floribus in quisque bractea solitariis masculis pedicellatis, foemineis 
sessilibus. On rocks, base of San Francisco Mountain, New Mexico. This species is common 
at the Copper Mines, New Mexico, and is the same as No. 634 of Mr. Wright’s collection of 
1849, and No. 1189 of the collection made in 1851-’52. It is nearly allied to G. laurifolia, 
Benth. PI. Hartw. No. 81 and 384; hut that has rather obtuse and larger leaves, which are of a 
thinner texture and without the thickened muriculate margin. Endlicher (Gen. Suppl. 7, No. 
1900) has proposed to separate G. Fadyenii, Hook. 1c. t. 333, a native of Jamaica, as a genus, 
under the name of Fadyenia, on account of the sepals cohering at the tip in the male flower, the 
absence of a free portion of the perianth in the female, and the shoit thick recurved styles. In 
his Suppl. IV, No. 1899, he has added four other species from Mexico to this genus. In G. 
elliptica, however, (the original species,) the sepals cohere at the tip as much as they do in G. 
Fadyenii, nor have we detected in the pistillate flower of the former, the two teeth or free portion 
of the calyx described by Lindley ; and the styles are more or less recurved in all the species. 
The genus Fadyenia is, therefore, without a distinctive character. G. Wrightii is easily dis¬ 
tinguished by the roughish, slightly muriculate margin of the leaves. It is a shrub about three 
feet high. The leaves are 1^-2 inches long, and from three-fourths to nearly an inch wide, 
with a strongly mucronate tip. 
Colonel Fremont found on the Upper Sacramento, “above the Great Canon,” in 1846, a 
Garrya nearly allied to this species. It may be thus characterized: 
Garrya Fremontii : foliis lato-ellipticis utrinque acutis vix mucronatis planis glabris supra 
nitidis margine integerrimis ; racemis (J) ramosis ; bracteis ovatis acuminatis supra medium 
connatis, inferioribus 3-floris ; floribus pedicellatis. A shrub about four feet high. Only the 
male plant was found. The leaves are broader than in G. Wrightii, and are only slightly hairy 
in the youngest state. The spikes are 2-4 inches long, and seem to be pendulous. The bracts, 
by their union, form bidentate cups, which, on the lower part of the spike, and frequently 
throughout, are 6-flowered, (three flowers on each side.) This seems to be the normal inflor¬ 
escence of the genus, for in G. elliptica, and often in G. Wrightii, besides the primary flower in 
each bract, there are two small rudimentary ones. 
Another apparently undescribed species of this genus is No. 633 of Wright’s Western Texas 
and New Mexican Collection, (1849.) It is also in the earlier collection of Lindheimer. We 
have only the male plant. The leaves (including the petioles) are 2|-3 inches in length, oblong 
and obovate, obtuse, slightly mucronate, nearly glabrous and somewhat shining above, pub¬ 
escent underneath, smooth and even on the margin ; spikes shorter than the leaves, bracts 
lanceolate or ovate, flowers on short pedicels. Lindheimer and Wright seem to be the only 
botanists who have collected it. We propose for it the name of G. Lindheimeri. 
PLATANACEiE. 
Platanus racemosa, Nutt, in Audubon’’s Birds t. 362, and North Amer. Sylv. Ip. 47, t. 15. 
P. Mexicana, Moric. PI. Nov. ou rar. d’Amer. t. 26. P. Californica, Benth. Bot. Sulph. p. 54, 
and PI. Hartiv. p. 336. Arroyos and plains, near San Gabriel; March 23, (in flower, with 
