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- Plant was perfectly wild and taking care of iteelf stonostnl Bye 
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mena which it presents at the time offlowering. The female flowers 
appear floating on the surface, as if in p Bice Palin ia bt gi 
which they are to fertilize. . As if in obedience to their call, the male 
Jlowers, borne upon a long spiral stem, gradually rise from the bottom of 
the pond, unrolling the long flower-stalk, turn after turn, till they also 
reach the surface. Here they meet the first comers; they touch, 
and immediately begin to retreat once more to their dark homes 
beneath the waters, where they ripen their seed, and provide for 
Rew generations.” P. 110: “Mount Lebanon separates the Holy 
Land from Syria, above whose loftiest mountains it towers. The 
Tange has the form of a horse-shoe, and measures not less than 
three thousand miles in length.” : Hig: 
These are but specimens. The italics are ours. 
_ %6,. Erodium, L’Her,—-I had the good fortune to find Hrodium cicu- 
jarium, L’Her., in full flower yesterday, at Poughkeepsie, near the 
Fall Kill Creek and the Hudson River R.R. There was a small 
patch of it a few inches square under a red cedar, Juniperus Virgi- 
mana, L. The ground looked to the south-west. Of course the 
“2, April9, 1872. fish ues Hyarr. 
97. Marsilia quadrifolia, I.—-Found at Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas, 
3. Marsilia longipes, x. sp., Austin.—About the size of M. vestita, H. 
£G., but more slender and much less hairy ; sporocarp oblong- 
°t ovate-lanceolate, about two and a half to three lines long by less 
n one line in thickness, continuous with the peduncle, which is 
40 inch or more in length. Mixed with the specimens of M. vestita 
from the Herbarium of Dr. Gray, collected in Oregon, in 1871, by 
Etihu Hall. nee = 6:5 Boks « 
09. Maples— March 12th, 1871, the Silver Maples in the streets of 7 
yn were in bloom. This year, the first appearance of flowers 
upon the same trees was April 5th, a difference of twenty-four days, 
80 that our season is now about three or four weeks later than last 
year. It seems to be a general impression that the Acer rubrum 
Ooms earlier than A. dasycarpum, but with us the latter is always 
ba A sins? two weeks the earlier. se sali 
er of blooming is: 1. A. carpom ; 2, A. rubrum ; 
3. A. platanoides ; 4. Aj leaaeliaiteiin ie A. pseudo-platanus. _ 
30. New Publications, —1. Twenty-third Report of the Regents of the 
University on the New York State Cabinet of Natural History for the — 
Year 1869 : Report of the Botanist ; Printed in advance of the Report : 
Albany, 1872 ; pp. hes with six colored plates of Fungi.—In this 
Report Mr. Peck makes another large and valuable contribution to. 
the Plora of the State, especially the Cryptogamic, sixty-seven of 
the Fungi and one Alga being new to science. He gives a list of 
‘one hunc and twenty species growing on the exposed summit of 
Mt. Marey ; heiiue sindin, fifty ; Club Mosses, three ; Mosses, 
: thirty-two ; Liverworts, ten ; Lichens, twenty-three ; Fungi, two 
*Pecies ; and adds ; “ The number of marsh plants growing at this 
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