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have commonly understated the size of Bauks's Pine {Pinus Banksiana^^ 
I^ambert), Gray describing it as " a straggling shrub or low tree, 
and other authors giving its maximum height at from twenty to f^^rty 
feet, Mr. Britton then states that he has found trees, in the vicinity 
of Marquette on Lake Superior, that measured seventy feet in height; 
.but he overlooks the detailed observations of Mr. Bell, who tells us 
that on the southern branches of Albany River, south-west of Hud- 
son's Bay, he saw *' large groves of these trees about seventy feet m 
height, and two feet in diameter at butt, with straight trunks nearly 
free from branches for the first twenty or thirty t'eet.'^ 
I have myself seen Banks's pine growing in abundance at various 
places along the lower River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at 
Newfoundland; and have found many trees at Godbout and Seven 
Islands that were upwards of fifty feet in height, and some that ex- 
ceeded sixty feet. In the Province of Quebec it is largely used as a 
fire-wood, and along the north shore of the river it has become an 
article of commerce of no inconsiderable value, thousands of cords 
being shipped annually to Quebec, It is here called " cypress'' ! 
In our manuals the species is commonly, though very improperly 
termed the '^ northern scrub pine." Its habitat is in the far north, 
where it attains its maximum development, constituting one of the 
larger forest trees. Only beyond the limits of its proper range does 
it occur as a ^'straggling shrub," or merit the appellation of 
"scrubby.'* 
Mr, J. A. Allen, in treatii _ 
graphical distribution in mammals, has tersely formulated the follow- 
ing lawj which is as strikingly applicable in the present case as in any 
member of the group for which it was particularly framed: ^^ The 
maximum physical development of the individual is attained where the 
conditions of environment are most favorable to the life of the species. 
Species being primarily limited in their distribution by climatic con- 
ditions, their representatives living at or near either of their respec- 
tive latitudinal boundaries are more or less unfavorably affected by 
the influences that finally limit the range of the species." 
Locust Grove, N. Y, C. Hart Merriam. 
Lonicera grata.— Does any New York or New Jersey botanist 
know aught of the station for this plant, "in the cedar swamps of 
New Durham, about three miles from Hoboken, New Jersey," cited by 
Torrey in his Flcra of the Northern and Middle States, or, if the plant 
and the swamp arc now extinct, is any other locality known? There 
is no specimen fron\ New Jersey or New York in the Torrey Herba- 
rium. This herbarium has a specimen from Dr. Darlington, and his 
stations, as given in the second edition of the Flora Cestrica (it is not 
in the first edition), arj '*on Ridley Creek, by Mr. George W. Hall, 
in 1831, also along the Brandywine, above the Forks, in 1835, by 
John Rutter." Now there is nothing in the character, nor in Darling- 
ton's specimens, to distinguish the species from the Z. Cafrifoliunt 
excepting that the leaves are perhaps more glaucous beneath and 
that the flowers are said to " have almost too strong an odor to be 
agreeable," I am not aware that this has ever been said of the 
