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Specimens of Lechea are generally best gathered in the fall of the a 
year, when the fruit is mature and the root leaves are forming or “ 
formed. Ihave, however, gathered good specimens in this latitude ; 
as late as December. 
: Wma. H. Leeeetr. 
224, EK, 10th St., New York. 
§ 123. New Publications—1. Zhe Ornamental and Useful 
Plants of Maine. Part I, by F. Lamson Scribner, B. 8. Printed 
for the author, Augusta, 1875. This is a popular account of the 
‘ornamental and useful” plants of Maine, with a number of good 
illustrations, following the order of Gray’s Manual, and reaching 
to the end of Caprifoliacee. We hope Mr. Scribner will feel en- 
couraged to complete his charming and useful work—.2. A copy of 
the Springfield Republican, which we cannot put our hands upon, 
contained gratifying evidences of the vitality of the Connecticut 
Valley Botanical Association. 3. Darlingtonia Californica, an In- 
sectivorous Plant, read at the Hartford meeting of the American 
Association, by Wm. M. Canby, Philadelphia, The Gardener's 
Monthly Print, with an engraving of the plant: a valuable paper, 
supplementary to the interesting observations on Sarracenia.—t. 
The American Garden, New Series, Nos. il. & Ill. We observe. 
that the editor quotes very largely from the BuLietry, and in doing 
so-mestions our Club in a manner trying to its modesty. The — 
Garden contains much interesting reading ; the articles on Hardy 
Ferns and Aquatic Plants, for example, will interest cultivators of 
our indigenous plants. According to De Candolle (Geog. Bot. p.. 
821), the Nation is right in doubting the Brazilian origin of 
Helianthus tuberosus, but why did it not, while parading its 
botanical learning, give its source, as requested? It seems to us 
_ , that in this way the credit of “literary men” would have been 
better maintaimed. : 
§ 124. Jasminum revolutum, Sims.—-Prof. D. 8. Martin has writ- 
ten us a note, calling attention to an error in Gray’s Field, Forest — 
and Garden Botany, in regard to the number of ovules in each eell of | 
Jasminum. In examining a large number of blossoms from a bush 
of J. revolutum, he found that “each cell contained two well de- 
veloped ovules. One or two of the flowers had three celled — 
ovaries, “two of the cells having two ovules, while in the thitd. 
but one was distinctly observable.” 
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It is not surprising that, in so condensed a hand-book, covering 
so wide a field, this exception should have been overlooked. ‘The — 
deviation in the number of cells is a variation like that in Cephalan-_ 
thus mentioned above by Mr. Hall, : 
Terms—One Dollar per annum beginning with the January number. For the Botanical 2 
Directory alone, 30 cents. Back volumes on hand, : 
The Club meets reguiarly the last Tuesdvy of the month in the Herbarium, Columbia Col- 
lege, at ig P.M. ae 
