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to account. Fortunately, in one view, the smaller trees are less 
liable to attack, so the forests may survive for the generations that 
will take care of them. Of course the plants new to the state are 
chiefly Fungi, of which there is a goodly array, this being Mr. Peck’s 
specialty. Of others not previously mentioned in the BULLETIN, we 
notice Pyrus sambucifolia, Cham. and Schl, Adirondack Mts., Mr. 
Peck; Aster amethystinus, Nutt., Green Island, Albany Co., Mr. 
Wibbe; Hadenaria leucophea, Nutt., Wayne Co., KE. L. Hankensen. 
Of new localities we have: Brasenia peltata, Pursh, in the Adirondack 
region, V. Colvin; Solea concolor, Ging., New Lebanon, Beck 
Herbarium; Mardosmia palmata, Hook, Ithaca, Prof. Prentiss, 
Machias, Wyoming Co., Clinton. Arceuthobium minutum, Englm. 
(A. pusillum, Pk.). Mr. Peck reports this mischievous little stranger 
from Oswego and Saratoga Counties, making five counties in the 
State in which it has been found. In all these localities it inhabits 
Spruces in low grounds or marshes. There used to be some Abies 
nigra in, Secaucus Swamp, if one had leisure, winter would be a 
good season to investigate it, Adres dalsamea, Marshall, occurs in 
Stony Clove, of the Catskills, in a prostrate or ascending bush-like 
form, Peck; Oryzopsis Canadensis, Torrey, Sandy soil near Center, 
Peck; Milium effusum, L., Stony Clove, Peck; Panicum agrostoides, 
Spreng., Northville, Fulton Co., Peck; Azolla Caroliniana,Willd., Black 
Creek near Oneida Lake, Warne. Thereare two well executed plates 
illustrating the Fungi.—3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia, 1876, January-September. That active 
observer, Mr. Thomas Meehan, seems to be the chief representative 
of Botany in the Academy. His many observations are always of 
interest, and his objections to the need of cross fertilization in the 
case of many plants must needs contribute to the discovery of the 
truth. Wm. Wood & Co., 61 Walker St., N. Y., and The Naturalist’s 
Agency, Salem, Mass., are agents for the sale of the publications ~ 
of the Academy.—4. American Agriculturist, January and February. 
Dr. Gray continues his instructive notes on, “ How Flowers are 
Fertilized.” From Mr. Darwin’s new work, “ The Effects of Cross- 
and Self-Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom,” he gathers 
illustrations of the wonderful activity of bees, and their sagacious 
economy of time. It is well known that humble-bees often bite 
holes in the flower to get at the honey more expeditiously, that is if 
the flower is to continue to yield it, but, he asks, “ Does any one 
know of an instance of the perforation of any fugacious flower, any 
which lasts only one day?” The Agriculturist always contains some 
excellent illustrations of plants, besides other matters of interest, and 
is sometimes a good deal ahead in its botanical news, say from two 
to nine years.—5. American Journal of Science and Arts, January. 
The first volume of Elliott’s Botany bears the date of 1821, the second 
of 1824, but Dr. Gray shows that the actual publication of the several 
parts was earlier, beginning in 1816. Homogone or Homogonous, and 
Heterogone or Heterogonous are terms proposed by Dr. Gray, to cover 
the difference in the relative length of styles and stamens in hetero- 
morphic plants, From a notice of a paper by Mr. Thomas Comber, 
Hist. Soc. Lance. and Chesh. Eng., it would appear that in Europe 
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