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Reported from North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Florida and 

 Texas. 



The variation in the number of columns has given rise to various 

 species, of which Dr. Burt gives an extensive synonymy. Some of 

 these appear under the generic name Latemea, a designation made 

 to separate species with a columnar receptaculum from those in 

 which it consists of anastomosing bars which form a large-meshed 

 net-work, as in Clathrus cancellatus Tourn., an old world species of 

 wide distribution, which has been found in the United States as far 

 north as New York. 



I have recently seen a colored drawing of a large specimen of 

 Clathrus columnatus made in Florida by Mrs. A. M. Hadley of 

 Manchester, New Hampshire, who kindly allowed a number of her 

 admirable drawings of fungi to be exhibited at a meeting of the 

 Boston Mycological Club. According to her observation, the species 

 was common, and was easily discoverable in the woods by the simple 

 method of following one's nose. — H. Webster. 



TWO NEW HYPERICUMS OF THE ADPRESSUM GROUP. 



B, L. Robinson. 



(Plate 37.) 



From Mr. C. H. Bissell I have recently received an interesting 

 Hypericum with the habit of H. adpressum, Bart. The plant is 

 represented by two specimens, both showing flowers and early stages 

 of the fruit as well as habit and foliage. They were found by Mr. 

 Bissell on the Alcott Road, Southington, Connecticut. The most 

 striking feature in which the plant differs from H. adpressum is the 

 great breadth of the sepals, but examination shows other differences 

 also, such as the number of stamens, the close punctation of the 

 leaves, and the unintruded placentae. The stamens are much more 

 numerous than in H. adpresswn and are not separable into pha- 

 lanxes as in that species. Efforts to place this plant in any other 

 hitherto described species have failed and it seems best to describe 

 it as new. It is a pleasure to dedicate the species to its discoverer, 

 one of the most alert and careful amateur botanists in New England. 

 The plant may be characterized as follows. 



