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bits of meadow smell deliciously of it in autumn. Before I knew of 
its fragrance, I have looked them over and over for vernal grass. 
I discovered that it was a fern four years ago at New Pond, in 
Elizabethtown (Essex Co., N. Y.).” 
Fungi. —Mrs. Cr adds :—‘ The season has been very wet, and the 
woods swarm With fungi. The leaves on the forest trees were 
blighted by them so much that whole patches of hillside covered 
with deciduous trees looked as if fire had run through them. Isaw 
fine trees with foliage turned yellow, owing to a fungus with brown, _ 
powdery spores, which grew under the smooth bark of the lesser 
branches. The Balsam Fir has a curious fungoid growth whichis 
-8o like in effect to Arceuthobium that it is hard to tell them apart 
till you handle them. I have not found the Arceuthobium on the 
Balsam as yet.” 
79, Willows and Poplars—We are indebted to the Rev. H. G. Jesup 
for a very fine suite of specimens of the Amherst willows. Ow — 
own collectors seem generally to have neglected these two gener, 
and our materials have consequently been very meagre. a 
80. Rhyneospora nitens, Gray— This southern form has been de 
tected at Long Pond, Wading River, L. I., by Messrs. Young and 
Miller. 
SALICACEA. ee 
Salix, Tourn.—t, candida, Willd.; found in all our districts ; N. bce - 
N. tristis, Ait.; Long Island ; Staten Island ; South Amboy.— — 
8. humilis, Marshall ; Hunter’s Point, Allen ; Harlem River, V- 
H. L.; Glen Cove, Coles.—S, discolor, Muhl.; everywhere com 
mon ; N. Y.—4. sericea, Marshall; Westchester Co.; Berge? 
Point.—, petiolaris, Smith ; reported from Westchester CO 
and New Durham Swamp, but the specimens are not decisiv® 
—K. viminalis, L.; cultivated in N. J.—S. cordata, Mubl.; rather a 
common, particularly the narrow leaved forms.—%, livida, Wabl — 2 
var. occidentalis; rather common.—S, Ineida, Muhl.; common-—_ : 
‘8. nigra, Marsh; N. Y., banks of Harlem River and Westchestes . 
Co., where is found the var. faleata—. fragilis, L.; N. Y.an¢ 
Westchester Co.—S, alba, L.; Glen Cove, Coles ; var. vitellimt; 
common on and about New York Island.—S. Babylonica, Tour?» 
yeas in cultivation —$, myrtilloides, L.; Budd’s Lake, N.?» 
cae ; 
POPULUS, Tourn.—P, tremuloides, Mchx.; common ; N. Y.—P. grandidele 
tata, Mchx.; common; N. Y.—P, heterophylla, L.; not uncom — 
mons swamps, Bloomingdale, Torr. Cat.—P. balsamifera, L.; Va 
candicans; common in cultivation.—P, nigra, L.; was former y 
reported ( Torr. Cat.) on the Hackensack road near Hoboken. Ws 
have heard nothing of it of late.—P. dilatata, Ait.; still linge’® 
on old grounds.—P, alba, L.; much cultivated. 
Terms—One dollar for one 
copy, per annum. 
Lea crc ne = 
copy ; five dollars for seven; and half a dollar for every 4 a 
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Local Herbarium, 3, B. 33d St.—Rditor, 224, B. 10th St. - 
The Club meets regularly the last Tuesday of the month in the Herbarium, Columbia College, at 7H 
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