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3. Young trees are often in advance of those of the same species of 
20, 30, or 40 years of age, a circumstance which may be owing to 
the proximity of the soil or other local influences independent 
of age. 4. The buds at the top of a tree frequently open 
after those of the lower part, owing, perhaps, to their remoteness 
from the roots or to a difference in the temperature of the air 
above and below in spring. 5. In fine, in comparing the epochs 
of foliation of a species in different countries or different years, 
the influence of age is of little or no account relatively to the 
influence of .climate.—2. The American Naturalist, Sept. and 
Oct.: Dr. Gray has an appendix to his note on Schenolirion, on 
occasion of the rediscovery of S. album, Durand, in California. 
Abies subalpina, Engelmn., is the provisional name for what seems 
a new species, discovered by Mr. L. F. Ward, in the highest wooded 
regions of the Rocky Mts.—3. The Botanical Bulletin: In the 
October No. is an interesting account of a “jungle of herbs that 
have assumed forest-like proportions” on the bank of the Ohio at 
Hanover, Ind. Ambrosia trifida, twenty-two feet high; Polygo-— 
num Pennsylvanicum, six feet. In this No., the last of Vol. L., the 
editor bids farewell to the present title. We take this opportunity 
to thank him for the honorable courtesy which has prompted the 
change of name, We trust the Boranican Gazerre, with its in- 
creased number of pages, will meet with the success desired and 
deserved. It is published at Hanover, Ind., by John M. Coulter.— 
4. Programme of the International Horticultural Exhibition in 
1877 at Amsterdam: This exhibition promises to be of the greatest 
interest. The Programme may be bad on application, ost-paid, to 
Mr. H. Groenewegen, 5, Oetewalerweg, Amsterdam, Holland.—®. 
Catalogue of the Library of Adolphe Brogniart, to be sold at 
auction in Paris, Dec. 4th, prox. It is seldom that so good an 
opportunity is offered to supply deficiencies in a botanical library. 
Apply to E. Deyrolle, fils., 23, rue de la Monnaie, Paris. 
121. New Localities.—Aspleniwm viride, Huds., has been dis- 
covered by Mr. ©. G. Pringle on Mt. Mansfield, Vt.— Viola rotun- 
difolia, Mchx., Bristol, Bucks Co., Pa., I. C. Martindale.— Crepis 
aurantiaca, found by Mr. Arnold Green at Warren, R. I., some two 
years since, vid, BULLETIN, V., 32, has since been discovered by 
Messrs. Battey and Bailey in Providence. Mr. Bailey also found 
this summer at Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Mass., Polygonum Hart- 
wrightii, Gray, the new species so like P. amphibium. Senecio 
viscosus, L., found by Mr. Congdon on the wharves in Providence, 
1875, is reported by Mr. A. Green as fully naturalized, and growin 
in great quantities near Bullock’s Point, on the Prov. Warren 
Bristol R. R.— G@aleopsis Ladanum, L., bas recently been detected 
on Staten Island. Mr. Jos. Schrenk finds Tunica Saxifraga, Scop., 
by roadside at Flushing fully established, and likewise Ranunculus 
Freaeias L., at College Point, and at Flushing, on a hummock in 
the swamp, what he cannot but consider as Alnus glutinosa, Gert., 
apparently spontaneous. Mr. Davenport has sent us a specimen of 
the Cystopteris fragilis of Mr. McKay, which he finds a not unusual 
form. : 
