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galls. He states that if a dissection be made of one of the weevil 
galls on the bulb of the turnip, the second or third slice will show 
the outer foliations,-exactly similar to those of the root buds. When 
the centre has been reached, where the maggot will be found, there 
will also be found a vascular pencil running up from a medullary 
ray in the bulb, and bearing on its top a bud of the same description 
as that produced by a ray running out from a root. The insertion 
of the insect’s ovipositor brings a medullary ray into action, pro- 
ducing a tuberculated bud, and it is only the bud which the Jarva 
feeds upon. The author thinks the growth of a bud is an intelligible 
cause of the growth of a gall, but that we can infer nothing from the 
injection of a fluid. These statements seem to merit further ex- 
amination, for if “ oak-spangles,” button-galls, and a host of like 
productions are really leaf-buds, they are certainly developed in 
very abnormal situations. 
§ 323. Washingtonia.—The name Washingtonia, which was 
proposed by Kellogg to displace Lindley’s Weé/ingtonia, and both of 
which had to give way before Endlicher’s Seguota, is now proposed 
_ for a Palm which has hitherto been referred to two different genera. 
This Palm, first known as Brahea filifera aid then as Pritchardia 
Jilifera, is believed by Mr. Hermann Wendland (Botanische Zeitung), 
to possess sufficient differences to constitute it a species of a genus 
different from that of Pritchardia, and which he would name, as 
above stated, Washingtonia. 
§ 324. Peteris aquilina, var. caudata is frequent in Southern 
New Jersey and Delaware. 
Cyperus ovularis, var. cylindricus (Mariscus cylindricus, E\l.), 
is the prevailing form in Southern New Jersey and southward 
throughout the Delaware peninsula. Wo. M. Cansy. 
§ 325. Notes from New Jersey.—On Saturday I noticed some 
very large trees of Sassafras on the road from West Orange to Liv- 
ingston. I measured the largest one and found it three feet in 
diameter three feet above the ground, towards which it increased 
rapidly in size. 
The following plants have recently been found in Franklin: 
floerkea proserpinacoides, Willd.; a double and rose-tinted variety 
of Rubus villosus, Ait.; Pogonia verticillata, Nutt. ; Conopholis 
Americana, Wallroth; Medicago maculata, Willd.; and a dwarf 
variety of Azalea viscosa, L. [var. nitida?|. Of this variety I found 
no specimen over a foot high, but the flowers were larger than any I 
have ever seen in the typical form. In Bloomfield: Nasturtium 
sylvestre, R_ Br., and Leucothoe racemosa, Gray. In Montclair: 
Obolaria Virginica, L.; Cypripedium parviflorum, Salisb.; Monotropa 
Hypopitys, L., and Silene inflata, Smith. 
The Worth Jersey Botanical Club was formed on May 7th, and 
has already resulted in the introduction of the study into several 
schools. President, H. H. Rusby; Secretary and Treasurer, Miss 
_ Grace E. Cooley, Bloomfield; .vecutive Committee, Charles M. 
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