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Not having anticipated this result, I failed to note the species 

 sufficiently, during the season, but from this it seems that occasional 

 observations during another season will be well rewarded. 



Ithica, N. Y. 



Wm. Trelease. 



H. C Beardslee. 



1 8. Draba verna, L., and Sisymbrium Thaliana, Gaud., bien- 

 nial. — I send you to-day rosettes of radical leaves [and flowers] of 

 Draba verna, for a twofold purpose — to show that we too have an 

 early season, and that, so far as my experience goes, Draba verna is 

 certainly (always?) a biennial plant. The radical leaves are formed 

 in the fall, and the stem and flowers are developed very early in the 

 ensuing spring. Sisymbrium Thaliana has the same habit. 



Quite an abundant locality near me has enabled me to watch both 

 of them closely. 



Painesville, Ohio ^ jFe^, i8. 



19. Montrosity in Carya alba, Nutt.— My attention was re- 

 cently called to a peculiar montrosity in the nut of Carya alba^ Nutt. 

 Instead of the seed being divided into two main segments, as is nor- 

 mally the case, there were three principal divisions, separated from 

 each other by thin partitions of the endocarp, which was itself some- 

 what triangular in cross section. Never having noticed such a sport 

 before, I think the fact worth putting on record. 



Errata. — In the list of Staten Island Plants in the Jan. No. please 

 correct the following misprints : p. 11, 1. 6 from bottom, read **Cicuta 

 bulbifera ; " p. 1 2, 1. 6 from top, read *' Todt Hill ; " L 28, read '' New 

 Dorp; " I. 34, read '' Eatonia obtusata." N. L. B. 



20, Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



The number of this periodical, for April of last year, begins a 

 new volume. The article of interest to botanists in this issue is Mr. 

 Joseph F. James' " Catalogue of the Flowering Plants, Ferns, and 

 Fungi growing in the. vicinity of Cincinnati." The list of fungi em- 

 braced herein is one that was published in Mr. Lea's Catalogue in 

 1849, a work long ago out of print. Taking into consideration the 

 fact that the study of Mycology is rapidly growing in favor in various 

 parts of the country, and that the literature of the subject is greatly 

 scattered, and some of it scarcely obtainable, the Cincinnati Society 

 would be doing a great favor to students of this department of bot- 

 any, as well as advancing the cause of science, by supplementing the 

 bare list of fungi just noticed, with a republication of the descrip- 

 tions of new species as they were originally given by Mr. Berkeley in 

 Lea's work. We trust the Society will some day act on this hint, 

 since, owing to the rarity of the publication mentioned, these descrip- 

 tions are entirely inaccessible to most students. 



As for the other portions of the Catalogue, the author here 

 records, from his own observations, and from the Catalogues of Lea 

 and Clark, 869 species of flowering plants, 5 Equistta^ 24 Filices^ and 

 I Chura, The number of species of fungi embraced in Mr, Lea's 

 list is 319. 



21. Botanical News. — In the January number of the American 

 Naturalist^ Dr, Fred. Brendel concludes his interesting " Historical 

 Sketch of the Science of Botany in North America, which was begun in 

 the December number/' This part embraces the period from 1840 to 



