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found a clump with six scapes, each scape two feet eight inches — 
high, and the flower heads a trifle over two inches long. ‘This clump 
I dug up, and by careful supporting and wrapping carried safely, 
without any breaking, to Philadelphia, where we hope it will 
thrive. Much beauty is added to the purplish rose flowers by the 
bright, blue color of the exserted stamens. The leaves, at time of , 
flowering, are not more than one fifth the size they afterwards at- 4 
tain; and the perianth seems regularly to turn to a brownish-red 
‘ before becoming green. a . 
Among other things in flower we found Sassafras, Spice-bush, Ame 
lanchier, Euphorbia Ipecacuanhae, several Vaccinia, Gaylussacia rena : 
Cypripedium acaule, Viola pedata, V. lanceolata, V. sagittata, V. cuct a 
lata, Sisymbrium Thaliana, Draba vera—the largest specimens I ever : 
saw, scapes often seven and eight inches long. A very little Pysxidan- 3 
thera still remained in flower; Leiophyllum was not yet out. Alarge 
area of Sarracenia and of Nymphaea (the smallform) seemed to have — 
suffered unusual blight, and nearly all the plants were dead where : 
all last year were strong and vigorous. y a 
We found a large bunch of Phoradendron flavescens growing On — 
branch of a staminate tree of Acer rubrum. The tree was about ee S 
feet in diameter at base—I could not clasp around it with bo : 
arms; and the bunch of mistletoe was about 40 feet high up, on ® : 
limb of about the thickness of a man’s arm, and was greaterm — 
the diameter than the trunk of the tree at the base. We had no 
time or means to collect the specimen. » fi 
I also practically demonstrated the utility of “ Wood’s press 107 
such excursions. I put my specimens as collected at once inte oe 
press of that kind, and changed the papers immediately on ier 
at Philadelphia, but had no chance to change again till the an : 
inst., when I found the papers much drier than I expected, and the — 
specimens doing well. I. H. H. 
Pine street, New York, May 14th, 1872. 
39. Willows.—I send you a few observations on the Willows of 
this locality, without any hope of adding to what is known bee s 
specialists. The location ison the Connecticut river, about 125 miles 
from its mouth, latitude 42°50’ N. The river, within a distance 
of a few miles, receives several lesser streams flowing down frome 
among the hills, The rocks are slate and granite. | = 
I find here of native willows:—1. Salix rostrata, Rich, (livida, Wahi.) : 
This is a tree-like shrub, growing in pastures and on the borders — 
of woods, not apparently affecting water or wet places, nor have © 
observed it to be variable. iat 
2. Sali humilis, Marshall. This is a shrub, and our earliest 
species. It does not seek water or seclusion, but takes to roadsides; — 
fences, and neglected places. It isextremely variable in gene™ 
