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scutellate, disk pale tan-color, margin entire: when dry contorted, 
somewhat horny, and disk dark purple-brown; spores simple, oval, 
.0004 long. 
On dried rinds of squash (Cucurbita) in company with Phoma 
Cucurbitacearum. Poughkeepsie, September, 
Helminthosporium clavatum, (n. sp.)—Flocci densely fascicu- 
late; simple, septate, light-brown; spores elongated, clavate, 10- 
septate about from .001’—.003’ long. 
Forming roundish black spots on the under surface of the leaves 
of Asclepias incarnata. Poughkeepsie, Autumn. 
Septoria Salliz (n. sp.)—Spots large, roundish, pallid, cireum- 
scribed: by a reddish-brown line: perithecia minute, black, scat- 
tered; spores simple, rod-shaped, hyaline, bent, .0007’x 0001. On 
leaves of Acer saccharinum. Poughkeepsie, Autumn. 
$ 95. New Localities.—Dr. Gray, in American Journal for April, 
States that Howard Shriver, Esq., of Wytheville, Va., finds Pachy- 
stigma Canbyi together with Carex Fraseriana in the vicinity of 
that town. (Professsor Wood has procured specimens for the 
Club.) Mr. H. D. Keeler, of Jacksonville, Fla., finds Pavonia 
Sspinifex, Cav., in dry, open woods, at Mayport (mouth of St. 
John’s); probably a waif from the West Indies. 
$ 96. New Publications—We have received: 1. Archives of 
Science, Nos, 8 and 9, completing Vol. I., and continuing the 
_Phenogamous Flora of Vermont, by Prof. F. Perkins, and the 
Cryptogamic by ©. C. Frost. 2. Gardener’s Monthly, Vol. XILL., 
No. 1, edited by Thomas Meehan. 3, The Club is indebted to 
Prof. F. V. Hayden, of the Territorial Survey, for a copy of the 
Flora of Colorado, by Thomas C. Porter and John M. Coulter, 
noticed by a correspondent elsewhere. 4. Dr. Gray's notes in 
Silliman are, as always, of great interest. 5. The American 
Naturalist abounds in matters of interest to Botanists. All 
friends of the science should give it their support. 6. Revis- 
ton of the North-American Chenopodiacee, by Sereno Watson 
from Proc, Am. Acad. of Arts and Sci., Vol. LX. We have 
here another of Mr. Watson’s admirable monographs. Atten- 
tion has heretofore been called to Chenopodium leptophyllum 
_ Nutt., found by Prof. Eaton at Absecom, N. J.; confer Mr. Wat- 
 80n’s note, § 65 of current vol. of Bulletin. Blituwm capitatum 
, we gathered many years since in an orchard at Orange, N. J., 
where it seemed to be at home, Mr. Watson limits: it to the 
northern border states.—7. Zhe New York Semi- Weekly Tribune, 
Friday, June 5, contains a contribution by Dr. Gray, on Zn- 
sectivorous Plants, Additional Investigations. It consists chiefly 
_ of éxtracts from letters of Dr. Mellichamp, of Bluffion, S. C. 
_ These letters give Dr, M.’s observations and experiments in re- 
lation to the wonderful adaptations of Saracenia variolaris, Mchx) 
for catching insects and converting them into food. This is one of 
the most marvellous of the many extraordinary relations of plants 
to insects. A notice attached to our copy of the Zribune states 
that for a few days copies will be sent post-paid to any address 
