. Botanical gazette. Plants. Vol. /. OC't'OBER, 1876. JV'o. 72. s Calandrinia Leana, n. sp,—Smooth: leaves all radical, thick and succulent, oblanceolate, obtuse, 1—\H inclies :; scapes several from a thickened root, erect, 6 to 8 inches higli, furnislied above the middle and at tlie bases of the pe- duncles with small, ovate, scarious. glandular-denticulate bracts; inflorescence corymbose; sepals 2, orbicular, scarious, glandular-denticulate at the terminations of tlie veins. 1}^ lines in lengtli and breadth; petals 5 to 7, cuneate-obovate, retuse or emarginate, bright red, 6 lines long
. Botanical gazette. Plants. Vol. /. OC't'OBER, 1876. JV'o. 72. s Calandrinia Leana, n. sp,—Smooth: leaves all radical, thick and succulent, oblanceolate, obtuse, 1—\H inclies :; scapes several from a thickened root, erect, 6 to 8 inches higli, furnislied above the middle and at tlie bases of the pe- duncles with small, ovate, scarious. glandular-denticulate bracts; inflorescence corymbose; sepals 2, orbicular, scarious, glandular-denticulate at the terminations of tlie veins. 1}^ lines in lengtli and breadth; petals 5 to 7, cuneate-obovate, retuse or emarginate, bright red, 6 lines long; stamens 5 to 7, shorter than the petals; style 2>2 lines long; ovary of the same length, ovoid; ovules 2 to 10; seeds black, shining, estrophiolate. The wliole plant is more or less reddish, and resembles Spraguea umbellata in its general liabit. It is named for Mr. L. W. Lee, who col- lected it, August 2d, 1876, on the Siskiyou Mountains, near tlie southern boun- dary of Oregon.—Tiios. C. Porter. A VALUABLE LIBRARY FOR Sale.—Tiic Library of the French Botanist, Adolphe Broiigniart, is to be sold by auction in Paris on the 4th of December next, and the succeeding days. The Catalogue makes a duodecimo volume of two liundrcd and forty pages. The botanical portion is of course the richest and fills a hundred and seventy-four pages, comprising all departments of the science. The depai-tment of fossil plants is especially full, and, as the prefatory note remarks, would make a library by itself, and is almost complete. M. Brongniart was the creator of veg- etable paheontology, and to the end of his life devoted himself to collecting all that was published on this subject, small and great. Besides this the library con- tains many important works on vegetable anatomy, and many very rare pamph- lets, and papers published in the proceedings of learned societies. The books are subject to an addition of 5 per cent, to the price for the expenses of the sale, and an additional 5
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