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3. Hydrogen peroxide solution, full strength, for one week to ten 
days. At the end of tlris period, specimens apparently preserve well 
in alcohol or formalin. 
4. A solution composed of 40 parts of distilled water, 2 parts of zinc 
chloride, 1 part formaldehyde, and 1 part of glycerine. This solution 
and modifications of it are much used by pomologists to preserve 
fruits in their natural aspect of form and color. With the formula 
used as stated, it yielded rather inferior results, although discoloration 
did not occur. 
While immersion in boiling water before placing in preserving fluids 
gives the best results with all these fluids, less perfect specimens may 
be obtained by omitting that phase of the treatment. "The methods 
outlined will not remove any blackening which has occurred before 
they are applied. Specimens treated as described above press to a 
very pale brown color. 
WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON CoLLEGE, Washington, Pennsylvania. 
SENECIO OBOVATUS, VAR. ELONGATUS IN CoNNECTICUT.—This 
varlety, apparently not hitherto reported from New England, occurs 
in considerable abundance at a station in Guilford, Conn. It grows 
more or less mingled with the typical rayed form of the species, both 
in dense patches from four to ten fect in diameter, and as scattered 
individuals, in a woodland pasture of thirty acres or more. A part 
of the ground is a steep, dry, trap hillside: here the rayless plants 
predominate and are rather small, having a starved appearance. 
Were it not for the occurrence of vigorous patches in another, moister, 
part of the lot, where the non-radiate plants fully equal the radiate 
in size, I should think the rayless ones were merely ill-nourished forms. 
Some of the patches are almost entirely rayless, while others have 
nearly all the plants rayed. "The long peduncles, however, are a very 
distinctive feature of the rayless form. I think the rayless plants 
larger and more abundant this year than last.—Grorce H. BanrLETT, 
Guilford, Connecticut. 
The annual FIELD MEETING or THE Vermont BOTANICAL CLUB 
was held at Montgomery Center, July 10 to 13, in conjunction with 
the Vermont Bird Club. There was an attendance of about thirty. 
