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Her observations on the habits of the plant including the manner 
of its dissemination may be found in our pages (Vol. II. Nos. 11 and 
12., Vol. ILI. No. 12.), and_notes on the subject by Drs. Gray and 
Parry in the American Naturalist for 1872. Mr. Chas. H. Peck, 
of Albany, also discovered the plant, but subsequently to Mrs. M., 
and gave an account of it in a Keport quoted in our Butierin (Vol. 
III. No. 4.). The parasite would seem to have become unusually 
abundant of late years. It is very important to learn its anterior 
history. 
24. Seasonable Hints—Watch the various Willows; gather the 
catkins of both sorts, and mark the bushes so as to get the leaves — 
later in the season. As the willow is diecious, every variety 
should be represented by four pieces, staminate and pistillate 
catkins, and corresponding twigs with leaves well developed and 
if possible with stipules—Carices are now appearing, and are 
much needed for the Catalogue.—Get some pollen of Calla 
(Richardia Aithiopica) and examine the contents of the pollen — 
granules, burst or crushed in water, to see the movements of the 
fovillz. 
SMILACEZ, 
SMILAX, Tourn.—S. rotundifolia, L.; common; N. Y. : var. quad- 
angularis; Staten Island, Av/en,—S. glauca, Walt. ; not un- 
common; New Jersey, Long Island, Staten Island, &e. S. 
herbacea, L.; common; N. Y.: var. pulverulenta; flats east 
of Greenpoint, 7! FA. & W. H. L. 
LILIACE 4, 
TRILLIUM, L.—T: erectum, L.; N. J. Zorr. Cat. ; near Norwood 
and Tappan, Austin ; Preakness, Fischer ; Glen Cove, Coles ; 
Lawrenceville, Ruger, Westchester Co., Pooley. T. cernuum, 
L. ; Closter, common, Austin ; Preakness, Fischer > Nae 
of N. J., opposite Hudson City, Ruger ; Westchester Co., 
fischer 3 Long Island, Newtown, common, Ruger; Glen 
Cove, Coles.—T. erythrocarpum, Mchx.; New Durham 
Swamp, Zorr, Cat. ; Long Island, Coles. 
MEDEOLA, Gronoy.—M. Virginica, L.; common; N. Y. 
MELANTHIUM, Gronov., L.—M. Virginicum, L.; not uncommon in 
low grounds; Hackensack Flats; Staten Island; Keyport, 
Brown ; Yonkers, Pooley ; Closter, Austin. A variety with 
much broader leaves, and, I believe, otherwise different, occurs 
in upland woods and thickets in Orange Co., Austin. 
VERATRUM, Tourn.—V, viride, Ait.; common; N. Y. 
HELONIAS, L.—H. bullata, ..; near Freehold, Monmouth Oo., N. J. 
Lockwood. Vid. Vol. IL., § 38. : : 
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