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- U. St.,”? and that the late Dr. Parry is at St. Louis as “ Keeper of 
the Engelmann Herbarium, Shaw Botanic Garden;’’ but we fear the 
well-known botanical artist of Jamaica Plain will hardly recognize 
himself as “C. E. Jaxon;’’ and as an ostensible English address 
‘« Towa City, Ja., will have a tendency to make the average postal 
clerk tear his hair and turn with relief to “Snider, Dayton, Ohio,”’ 
or even attempt to hunt up ‘‘ Dr. J. G. Cooper, Haywood, N. C., 
(North Carolina ).’’ : 
The list of Pacific Coast botanists is a mine of new facts, and 
many of those whose names are inserted will probably see them- 
selves so-styled for the first time. Dr. J. (?) Le Conte is set down 
as a ‘‘ Florist;’’ Prof. Kleeberger is stationed at Marysville; Mr. 
and Mrs. Brandegee are relegated to Cafion City, Colorado; the 
State Mining Bureau, a singular botanist by the way, to Sacra- 
mento; while Dr. H. H. Behr, Mrs. J. G. Lemmon, Carl Purdy, 
C. F. Sonne, W. F. Lyon, H. N. Bolander, L. F. Henderson, 
Elmer R. Drew, B. F. Leedes and numerous others with far better 
claims than many in the list are omitted altogether. A good botan- 
ical ‘‘ Address-book ” is evidently still to be written. 
Notes froma Garden Herbarium—V\. L. H. BAILey, Amer- 
ican Garden, August, 1891. In this paper the author writing of 
the wild crab-apples of America names two new species, /Pirus 
Soulardi and P. Joensis. The first of these was introduced into 
cultivation as a hybrid, and if hybrids can be produced by accident, 
they can be also by intention; a means of settling such matters 
which would naturally commend itself to the possessor of a “ Garden 
Herbarium.’’ The author seems to be distinctly doubtful of the 
validity of his own species, and mere garden names would prob- 
ably have been better suited to them until a more careful examina- 
tion of their claims to a specific rank could have been made. 
Contributions to the Life-Histories of Plants, No. VI. By 
THomAs MEEHAN, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1891, 269-283. Of these 
notes entitled: On the Causes Affecting Variations in Lzzaria vul- 
garis; On the Self-fertilizing Character of Composite; On the 
Structure of the Flowers in Dipteracanthus macranthus; Aerial 
Roots in vis vulpina; Additional Note on the Order of Flower- 
ing in the Catkins of Willows; Self-Fertilizing Flowers; the second 
and the last are of especial interest. The author claims, and we 
