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168 HORACE MANN,
the diffuse habit of that plant, which, however, has similarly dotted
bracts, and is perhaps the neanest ally.
10. Zoi/sia Sbiica, n. sp. ; foliis involutis, spiels lanceolatis 1-1^
poll, longis 2-2^ lin. latis, spiculis laxiusculis siibdivergentibus
3-liuealibus oblongo-lanceolatis obliquis acutis.—Ad oras Chinsc austro-
orientalis usque saltern ad Araoy. (Exsicc. n.~ 10155.)
This species is the only one I have seen from the coast of China.
Mr. Beiithara, in the ' Flora Hongkongensis,' has referred to Z.pungens,
Willd., which, however, from a comparison of Ceylon and South Aus-
tralian specimens, appears to me abundantly distinct, by its narrow
linear spikes and ovate-lanceolate spikelets, only a line or little more
long, and so compactly and evenly arranged as to give a tessellated ap-
pearance to the spike. Z. Japonica, Steud., under which name, with a
mark of doubt, I have been accustomed to distribute the Chinese plant,
is much nearer Z. pungens, and perhaps not sufficiently distinct ; but
the spike is broader, the spikelets are borne on long pedicels, and are
much more laxly arranged, and the leaves are flat, or but slightly in-
volute.
nOEACE MANN, CURATOR OF BOTANY IN THE BOSTON
SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY.
By William T. Brigham, Esq.
{From the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. xii.,
November 18, 1868.)
It is sad to speak publicly of our private sorrows, but when those
sorrows touch all alike who reverence the good, admire the brave, re-
joice over victories in the noble struggle of light against darkness,
knowledge against ignorance, or who mourn over great efforts uncom-
pleted, then must we lay aside all thoughts of personal loss, and speak
each with all of our common grief.
The youngest officer of this Society has left us never to return.
Were years alone the test of usefulness and manhood, wc might count
over the few that Horace Mann numbered in his earthly life, regret
they were so few, and from the full-grown and ripened lives still with
us, look for his successor. But vainly should we look ; where should
we find in all the years the best of our number could show, a single