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The flowers of Phlox canescens are very often pink or purple, as 

 well as " white.*' 



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The seeds of Eryihraea Doiiglasii are not "globular" in a great 

 many plants. They also vary in size. ' 



Salt Lake City, Utah. Marcus E. Jones. 



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Onoclea sensibilis, var. obtusilobata.— Seeing the notes in 

 the September and October Bulletins on that form of Onoclea sen- 

 sibilis usually called variety obtusilobata, I thought it might be of in- 

 terest to state in what localities we have found it, and something of 

 my experience in trying to cultivate it in my garden. 



I first found, growing in profusion, in a low marshy meadow, 

 some of the finest fertile obtusilobata forms, from the same rootstocks 

 on which were the ordinary sterile fronds. Growing side by side in 

 this meadow were all the forms mentioned by Mr. Underwood, as 

 well as some with acute segments open in fructification. When I 

 first visited this spot and found the finest specimens, it had not been 

 mown over; but since that it has been mown every year, and the speci- 

 mens are not so fine obtusilobota. I have also found it growing by road- 

 sides at Pompey Hill, in dry localities, regularly mown. There, most 

 of the fronds more nearly approached the normal sterile form, some 

 having one-half entirely sterile and not at all contracted. 



Last year, on our first visit to Cicero Swamp, Mrs. Myers found 

 a great abundance of obtusilobata in a portion of the swamp which 

 had been cleared of trees, but not burnt over nor at all cultivated. 

 Jn the sphagnum, near by, we found Chiogenes hispidula and Gaul- 

 tnei ta procunibeus. 



In a swampy woods, near Centerville, we have found, several 

 years m succession, fine specimens of obtusilobata, while on the 

 jamesville Road, a few years ago, there used to be a long stretch of 

 the beautiful C//,;,-/m ^^//^/M/> (never any of the variety) skirting a 

 Yich low wood ; but the hand of the spoiler felled the woods, and since 



that time it has all died out without ever showing any obtusilobata 

 forms. ° ^ 



Often, when I have found what seemed to me the most perfect 

 olHusilobata, I have brought it home and planted it in my fern-bed in 

 the garden only to have it show fine normal sterile fronds (no fertile 

 ones whatever) while by its side Struthiopteris Germanica, collected 

 irom similar localities, would send up year after year good healthy 

 fertile fronds. ■ j b y 



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Whether all of this will aid much in proving that obtusilobata is no 

 variety and that it is an effort of the species to form a variety or 

 whether a reversion, I greatly doubt 



Syracuse, N. Y. Mary Olivia Rust. 



Myco-Licnens.— In the recent work by Dr A Minks entitled 



n'ul'''^'f-''""^''^^^^°°^^^^' ^^^°^^^ to'mainttinin "that a a ge 

 number of Pungi, amounting to several thousands, are properly to be 



regarded as Lichens, a hst of a considerable number of these Fun ei 



or Myco-I, Chens ,s given. As several of these occur in "h^s 



country, a list of them may be of interest to American fungologist 



