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round ox roundish xoox.^ (tubers) and was extended to some which 

 (like the starchy rbotstock of Orontmm)^ though not round, were 

 used like the others as a bread material. 



The names given by Kalm for Orontiuju {tawkee^ tawkim^ tackuini) 

 2iVid'(or Peltandra {iuckah^ tawking) are Swedish corruptions of the 

 Delaware Indian nanie for these bread materials ; a term having 

 about the same meaning as tuckahoe, and being from the same Algon- 

 kin root— Abnaki, petegwi j Massachusetts, petiikki ; Delaware, 

 ftucqui, '' round/' or *' that which is round." 



In some of the northern dialects of the Algonkin, the equivalent 

 of tuckahoe — M^^s.^ petukquineg, Narrag., puttuckqunnege, Mohican, 

 'tuquauh or 'tuquogh, literally '* a round thing" or "something 

 round," had the secondary meaning of a *' loaf of bread" or a 

 '^ cake " ; but the Virginian term, and its Delaware equivalent, 



seems to have had the secondary signification of '^ bread root. 

 Ed.) 



Abnormal Botrychium.— AVhen at West Point in July, I took a 

 walk with Mr. E. S. Denton, which I shall not soon forget. My 

 companion, who is an enthusiast in botany, showed me some of his 

 favorite localities; among them, one for Camptosorus. It was a wild 

 place on the side of a mountain, amidst broken boulders and wind- 

 falls — a spot to delight a collector. Here I found, what I specially 

 wish to note, a specimen oi Botrychium Virgi7iicum^ Swz,, with three 

 fertile segments to the frond, all well developed. The stipes were 

 confluent only for about two inches above the point at which the 

 barren frond diverged; above this, entirely distinct and fully fruited. 

 As abnormalities in Botrychia are just now made interesting by Mr. 

 Davenport, this note may be worth recording. I retain the specimen 

 described. 



/ W. W. Bailey. 



Query for Readers of the Bulletin.— is there any reason for the 

 statement by country people in various parts of the Union that the 

 beech is never struck by lightning? The question is extra-botani- 

 cal, perhaps, yet of some possible interest to collectors who may, in 

 thunderstorms, take refuge suh icgm/ne fagi. 



W. W. Bailey. 



Tricardia Watsoni.— On looking over my note on Tricardia in 

 the July Bulletin, I notice that the printer has left out a l'""p nf 

 my manuscript, as I am made to say that " Watson found * 

 a single specimen at St. George, Utah ; " while Mr. Watson was 



Watson 



Parry 



Upon consulting Mr. Jones's manuscript, we find that, as he states, the printer 

 omitted several words in one of his sentences. We must confess that the proof 

 of Dcilher of Mr. Jones's notes in the July number was read with sufficient care, or 

 compared with his MS.; for, had either been, we should have detected not only the 

 error here alluded to. but also one in his Fern Notes, where, by slip of the pen, 

 he wrote Botrychium instead of Ophioglossum.—Y.ii. 



