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than a hundred feet square. It is on a hill under beeches, elms, 
maples and a few pines. In the valley near it I found, for the first 
time, Pogonia pendula, Lindl.” oar she 
No plants are so eagerly sought for as orchids. Yet Epipactis, 
all these centuries, has shut itself up, waiting for the sharp eyes of 
the ladies of the Syracuse Botanical Club. What new discoveries are 
to be expected from their penetrating glances. Place aux dames. 
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§ 339. Syracuse Botanical Club.—We noticed the formation of 
this Club in our January No., under the name of the Rust Botanical 
Club. Their president, however, protested against the eponym, and 
it was accordingly changed. The resident members are exclusively 
ladies, about thirty-two in number Their discoveries of Botrychium 
Lunaria, Epipactis, &c., and their list of the F7/ices Onondagenses, com- 
prising about fifty distinct varieties, some very rare, prove them to be 
among the most active of botanists. The president assigns to each 
member some family of plants to studyup. They have field-meetings 
twice a week in the season, a weekly meeting for study, and a business 
meeting on the third Monday of each month. This organization is 
_ admirable, and might be profitably imitated, where practicable. 
The officers are: President, Mrs. S. M. Rust; Vice-President, 
Mrs. Chas. Barnes; Zreasurer, Mrs. A. D. Fairbanks; Secretary, 
_ Mrs. M. J. Myers. Among the corresponding members are Profs. 
Gray, Eaton, Peck and Robinson. Should they ever require a seal, 
Epipactis and Botrychium Lunaria suggest an appropriate device. 
§ 340. Plantago Patagonica, Jacq., var. aristata, Gray.—Since 
this plant has been found in Southern New Jersey, you may like to 
know that one specimen of the same was found last fall at Long Hill, 
on the edge of this city, by Mrs. A. V. Burnham. In the spring of 
this year she looked for it again, and found it growing abundantly. 
The locality is near a place where the horses used at a brick-kiln 
close by are fed, and, if western grain is used, that may account for the 
appearance of this western weed. I enclose a small specimen; I 
have others eleven inches high with a dozen mature spikes, and some 
of the plants were too large for herbarium sheets. 
Nantucket plants.—A few interesting plants have been found 
this summer in Nantucket, Mass., farther north on the coast than they 
have been noticed before. Ascyrum Crux-Andree, L., Hypericum 
adpressum, Barton, which is very abundant near some of the ponds, 
and Utricularia subulata, L., in two localities. 
These discoveries are due to the zeal of a botanical society formed 
there about a year ago, whose members are beginning to collect for a 
complete herbarium of the Island flora. 
To this list of southern plants we can add Baccharis halimifolia, 
L.; Erythraea spicata, Pers.; a variety of Sabbatia stellaris, Pursh, and 
Opuntia Rafinesquii, Engelm., which have long been known on the 
Island. Plants much like Opuntia vulgaris, Mills, are also found 
there, but it will take another summer to decide the species positively. 
Maria L, Owen. 
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Aug. 19¢h, 1879. 
