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Davis, Bloomfield; Miss J. Randall Spaulding, and Miss ——- 
Eldridge, Montclair, 
FRANKLIN, N. J., June fh. H. H. Russy. 
§ 326. White Strawberry.—I send you some plants of a white 
strawberry. It is plainly /ragaria vesca, L. These plants have 
borne white fruit as long as I have known anything about them, so 
that the peculiarity seems to be constant. On referring to the 
BuLtetin (II. 30), I find that this has been noticed by Mrs. A. E. 
Brown, in Northern New York. She found the whole plant of a 
lighter color than those which had red fruit. My specimens having - — 
only the fruit white might perhaps be called var. albocarpa. The 
plants grow in the shade and perhaps this may be connected with 
the color of the fruit. 
Staten Island Plants.—Please add to my list of Staten Island 
grasses, Agrostis alba, L.,common ; Calamagrostis Canadensis, Beauv., 
near Garretsons ; G/yceria obtusa, Trin., near Tottenville. Arrhena- 
therum avenaceum, Beauv., near Clifton, and at Richmond village. I 
have also found Monarda fistulosa, L., at Richmond, and 7rifolium 
éncarnatum, L.., in waste ground near Richmond. 
Cyperus.—I am studying this genus, and wish specimens from all 
quarters. Would be glad to exchange. 
New Dorp, July 2d. N. L. Britton. 
327. Notes from Rhode Island.—I found the other day in 
peculiarly rich and moist soil a gigantic fasciated specimen of 
Ranunculus repens, L. As Dr. Masters does not record this plant 
among his instances of fasciation, it may be worth noting. On the 
same day I found growing on newly filled in land a vigorous patch 
of the rare weed, Anthemts arvenis, L. [Common about New York, 
Eps. i 
eG L eienetle: Sune w7th. W. W., BaiLey. 
§ 328. Lythrum Salicaria, L—This plant so interesting on 
account of its strongly marked trimorphous flowers, was found in 
abundance on July 5th, in meadow on south side of Moodna Creek, 
at its confluence with the Hudson River. It also occurs sparingly 
southward along the river road to Cornwall landing, just along the 
high water mark. : ‘ 
Echium vulgare, L., infests the roadsides and river banks in 
Cornwall and adjacent villages. 
*W. H. RupkIN. 
§ 329. Antiquity of Orchids.—In Nature, Ap. 3d, in a notice 
of Grant’s Origin and Development of the Color Sense, Mr. Wallace 
says of Orchids: “If we take into account the world-wide distribu- 
tion of these plants, their immense richness in genera and species, 
and their wonderful complexity of structure, we must consider them 
as among the most ancient instead of among the most recent of flow- 
ers.” In Nature, May 15th, D. Wetterhan writes in support of this 
view: “ Out of fifty species of orchids” in Garcke’s German Flora, 
_ “not less than forty-one occur in the British Isles’’ besides two not 
