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European honeysuckle. Dr. Hale's Louisiana specimen, in Herb. 
Torn, I must suppose to be the European species. No other specimens 
purporting to be indigenous are known to me. Is there really an in- 
digenous species of this sort? As Darlington cites Lonicera Vir- 
giniana^ Marshall, Arbust., as a synonym of Z. grata, and as Mar- 
shall, who lived in Darlington's district, assigns no particular habitat 
for his species, one may suppo'se that he had in view a wild species 
of his own region. But if so he would hardly have named it Z. Vir- 
ghiiana ; and his description answers rather to Z. sempervirenSy the 
flowers '* having long scarlet tubes with short borders." We get no 
more satisfaction by referring to the original sources of the species. 
It was founded, in the Hortus Kewensis, on Periclymeniwi Americanum 
of Miller's Dictionary. Miller merely says it is from America. 
Pursh would seem to have known all about it. He says : '^ On 
the mountains, rambling among rocks, in shady, moist situations, 
New York to Carolina ; rare." But in such matters Pursh is not to 
be trusted. Can any American botanist throw further light upon 
the matter? 
Asa Gray. 
Magnolia glauca, L., on Long Island. — This tree, reported in 
the N. Y. State Flora as occurring on Long Island, and which has 
hitherto eluded the search of recent explorers, including the authors 
of the Catalogue of the Plants of Suffolk Co., has been found by Mr. 
Robert W. Newbery, of this city, growing spontaneously on both 
sides of the L. L Railroad culvert at Tuttle's Pond, a short distance 
east of Speonk Station, Suffolk Co. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
W. H. RUDKIN. 
Botanical Notes. 
Diospyros KakL — According to J. Ishikana, in a paper on the 
materials containing tannin used in Japan, .a remarkable liquid, 
called "kaki-no-shibu," prepared from the astringent fruits of the 
persimmon {Diospyros Kakt), is used for giving strength and durabil- 
ity to paper, which 
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other countries. This property appears to be due to the deposit from 
the film of liquid, with which the paper is covered, possessing some- 
what of the character of lacquer, while the tannin acts as an antisep- 
tic. The film formed by this liquid on materials coated with or 
immersed in it is almost insoluble in water or alcohol and is not per- 
ceptibly attacked by boiling with dilute sulphuric acid. The kaki- 
no-shibu is prepared from the fruits gathered early in the summer 
and beaten in stone mortars. The mass, transferred to wooden tubs, 
IS covered with water for half a day, and then filtered through a straw 
bag. The liquid so prepared is a milky fluid of a light or dark grey 
color and evidently holds minute particles of solid matter in suspen- 
sion. 
The Development of Chlorophyll— Ixi recent works published by 
Messrs. Schimper and A. Meyer on the development of chlorophyll 
and color-beanng granules of plants, it is stated that instead of these 
bodies being formed free in the protoplasm of the cell, as hitherto 
