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have, indeed, found the capsule of one (an early flowering speci- 
men ?) considerably enlarged and the flower falling off, but suspect 
that the fertilization was effected, before the flower was fully 
opened, by an accidental conjunction of the anther and stigma. 
And yet as the stamens are didynamous and the stigma at first 
protruding in advance of them and afterwards reflexed, the 
original plan would appear to be trimorphic. We hope to get 
further insight into this subject. weit Le O 
§ 67. The cold of last winter.—I have, during the past sum- 
mer, made observations on the effects of the severity of the last 
winter on the trees and shrubs of the region between the Hudson 
and the Sound, as far as the Connecticut line. I have travelled in 
five different directions in distances ranging from seven to twelve 
miles. The Locust (Robinia Pseudacacia, L.) has suffered greatly. 
I have not seen any trees that are uninjured ; some are entirely dead, 
others with dead tops. Even in groves containing more than a 
thousand trees every one is injured. I have also travelled along 
the shore of Long Island, immediately opposite, but did not notice 
a tree that had suffered. The foliage of our apple-trees has been 
small and of a pale sickly green, and fruit has been wanting. Two 
large specimens of Hibiscus Syriacus in my own inclosure, over 
twenty feet high and more than thirty years old, have died, and 
many smaller specimens in adjacent grounds were greatly injured 
or totally killed. Several varieties of Rhododendron which had 
heretofore been considered handy were destroyed. But the Coni- 
ferous Evergreens, so far asI have observed, have escaped injury. 
White Plains. .O. RB. Winns. 
§ 68. Omphalaria pulvinata, Nyl.—I send a specimen of this 
plant, recently gathered by me from the rocks at this place, and which 
Prof. Tuckerman writes me is new to the flora of North America. 
Poughkeepsie, Dee. 17th. W. R. Geranp. 
§ 69. Fissidens hyalinus, Wils. & Hook.—Dr. H. C. Beardslee, 
Painesville, Ohio, sends a specimen of this plant, one of the most 
rare and local of our Western Mosses, and writes: “The original 
locality near Cincinnati, where it was first discovered by the late 
Mr. T. G. Lea, is lost, and Iam informed by Mr. Lesquereux that 
mine is the only locality now known.” 
§ 70. Agaricus (Tricholoma) Peckii, Howe, n. sp.—Pileus con- 
vex or expanded, viscid when moist, the separable pellicle when 
dry breaking up into small scales or areas, tawny red; flesh 
white ; lamelle narrow, close, sometimes branched, white; stem 
equal or slightly thickened at base, squamulose, white at the top, 
elsewhere colored like the pileus; odor farinaceous. Gregarious, 
2—4 in. high, pileus 2—3 in. broad, stem 4—6 lines in diameter. 
Ground in woods, Sandlake, N. Y., August. Young specimens 
sometimes have the top of the stem and the margin of the pileus 
adorned with drops of moisture of a reddish color. ore 
Yonkers, N. Y. : FE. C. Hower. 
§ 71. Western Plants.—I give you herewith some notes made on 
my trip from New York to Peoria and back via Mackinaw, De- 
troit, and the Great Western Railway of Canada, Buffalo, ete.—I 
