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I also have to add that Gymnogramme triangularis has just been 



gathered by me at Empire City, Nevada, growing along with Wood- 



sia Or eg ana and Cheilanthes myriophylla. 



Salt Lake City, U. T. Marcus E. Jones. 



Dimorphous Flowers of Menyanthes. — The usual form of Meny- 



^es trifoliata here has the stamens about half the length of the 

 projecting style. In 1872, I found a specimen with short style and 

 long stamens, I have looked for it since in the same locality and 

 elsewhere, but have not succeeded in finding it again. Will some one 

 who has collected the plant say whether both forms are common? 



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Note on Tricardia.— I have recently gathered at Empire City, 

 Nevada, Mr. Watson's Tricardia Watsoni, Torr, Mr, Watson, I be- 

 lieve, found a single specimen at St. George, Utah, and Mr. Parish 

 found one on the Mojave. I was fortunate enough to secure about 

 six specimens of this extremely rare plant. These nine specimens 



are, I believe, the only ones known 



Marcus E. Jones. 



Botanical Notes. — Origin of the name Bonpland, — The Pharma- 

 ceutical Journal says : ** Mrs. Mulhall, in * Between the Amazons and 

 Andes,' gives a curious account of the origin of the name of the cele- 

 brated botanist, Bonpland. Visiting the house of one of his friends 

 at Corrientes, she came across a manuscript in Bonpland's writing, 

 which begins : — ' I was born at Rochelle on August 29, 1773. My 

 real name was Amade Goryand. My father — a physician — intended 

 me for the same profession. It was on account of my great love for , 

 plants that he gave me the sobriquet of Bon-plant, which I afterwards 

 adopted instead of my family name,' " 



On the Drying of certain Plants. — The difficulty of drying plants 

 belonging to the natural orders Crassulaceae and Orchidaceae^ and 

 some of those belonging to the Portulacacede is well known, and the 

 knowledge of a remedy to prevent the plants from growing in the 

 drying-paper will doubtless be welcome to those who are preparing 

 herbaria, M, C. Lallemand {Bull. Soc. Bot.^'p. 192) recommends en- 

 closing the plant to be dried for twelve hours in a wide-mouthed 

 bottle or iron box, and submitting it to the vapor of benzine con- 

 tained in a small vessel enclosed with it. The plant is thus killed, 



and the drying takes place rapidly when the plant is pressed in botan- 

 ical drying-paper. 



The Mayjioii'er. — The Magazine of American History, in two of 

 its recent numbers, has included among its various archaeological and 

 historical notes one pertaining to botany. In the April number, a 

 correspondent makes inquiry as to the origin of the name *' May- 

 flower'' as applied to Epigaea repens, and in the succeeding number 

 Dr. O. R. Willis has undertaken to give the desired information. We 

 remember that two or three years ago this same question was dis- 

 cussed by various writers, through the columns of the New England 

 Journal of Education, some of these taking the ground that the name 



