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neighborhood, and plants found hardy there may safely be tried 
any-where in Central or Western New York. The Curators have 
for years not only planted and cared for the shrubs and trees im- 
ported and sold by the nurserymen, but made trial of the native 
shrubs and trees taken from the woods and swamps, and thus have 
not only succeeded in -accumulating a vast deal of experimental 
knowledge of cultivable natives, but have succeeded in transform- 
ing the Campus into a park not surpassed in beauty by any college 
grounds with which I am acquainted. 
Partly as cause and partly as effect of the work of the Curators 
with the native shrubs and trees, the grounds of several of the 
professors in the college have been adorned with beautiful and 
hardy native shrubs and trees, which are also, I am rather sorry 
to say, somewhat of a novelty, and which sometimes give the | 
professors a reputation for great research in the direction of rare 
toreign plants. Some of the professors have aiso made great 
acquisitions to their gardens by domesticating native herbaceous 
plants. iforbear going into details here, as the gentlemen to whom 
{refer are far more competent in that respect than I. The 
BuLiLetin would certainly be none the worse if it could obtain 
from Professors Owen Koot, or Edward North, or ©. H. F. 
Peters some record of their experimental knowledge of the desir- 
able planis of Central New York. oH. 
§ 3. Trichomanes radicans, Swartz—I found this fern last 
summer in a dozen localities within twenty miles of Mammoth 
Cave, in Edmonson County, Kentucky. [had gathered it the sum- 
mer previous in the eastern part of the same State. It grows 
thriftily and is well fruited. 1 also found the Asplenium Bradleyi, 
Eaton, in one very limited locality in Edmonson county. I believe 
no one else has ever reported these ferns north of the State of Ten- 
nessee before. 
La Fayerre, Inp. Joun Hussry. 
§ 4. Sullivantia Ohionsis, Torr. & Gr.—Mr. A. Harvey Young, of 
Hanover, Jefferson county, Indiana, sends us a specimen of this 
plant which he says is found growing upon the sides of some of the 
wet limestone cliffs of that county, and adds certain “ characters 
that seem worth noticing, but are not found in the botanical text- 
books.” “Panicle bracted with 3-5 toothed obovate bracts. Leaves 
thickish, shining green above and whitish underneath. Base of 
petioles membranaceously dilated, those of the flower stem embrac- 
ing it and bearing at the top a filiform stipule.” The plant is more 
particularly described in Gray’s Chloris, and under the name of 
Saxifraga Suliivantii in Torr. & Gray, p. 575. In none of the 
specimens that we have seen can we make out the filiform stipules 
to which Mr. Young refers, 
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