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leaves, in the proportion of about one in eight hundred, form a 
cup by a folding together and union of the basal edges, thus obliter- 
ating the usual sinus. No other elm in the vicinity presents this phe- 
nomenon. 
I have seen within a few days, in Phenix, R. L, a fine plant ot 
Lilium stiperbum with this peculiarity : all the flowers, and there were 
many, instead of the normal coloration, exhibited a clear yellow, 
without spots of any kind. I hope to secure bulbs, when I shall at- 
tempt to perpetuate this elegant sport, 
W, Whitman Bailey. 
The Long Island Station for Magnolia glauca.— Near the end 
of last June, Mr. E. S. Miller, of Wading River, and I went in search 
of the locality at which the Magnolia glauca had been detected. 
There was no difficulty whatever in finding the place, as it is clearly 
described in Mr. W. H. Rudkin's note in the Bulletin for August, 
^883, (p. 95.) ''Tuttle's Pond,'' a long, narrow mill-pond, formed 
ty damming a brook, has, at its northern end, a swamp of several 
acres, through which passes the Long Island Railroad, which has 
here a culvert through which the brook enters the swamp. This is 
about two miles east of Speonk Station. 
There were a few red maples and swamp laurels {Kalmia angusti- 
folia), and scattered amongst these, in large numbers, were the mag- 
nolias, many of them from 15 to 20 feet in height and of remarkably 
vigorous growth. We were a few days too early to find the flowers 
fully out, and had to content ourselves with buds only. 
G. M. WiLBER. 
Crantzia lineata.— I found this summer, in our salt meadows, 
Crantzia lineata, Nutt., which Mr. Peck (the State Botanist) says he 
considers a very rare plant in New York. 
"■ "na Pi'v^r E. S. MiLLER. 
Wad 
Botanical Notes. 
Production of Male and Female Plants— T^r, H. Hoffmann {Bof, 
Zeitung, xliii., pp. 145-153, 161-169) has attempted to deterrame the 
conditions under which male or female individuals are produced m 
the case of the following dioecious plants : Lychnis diurna and ves-^ 
pertina, Valeriana dioica, Mercurialis annua, Rumex Acetosella, Spi- 
nacia oleracea and Cannabis sativa. He finds that in most, if not m 
all, of these cases, dense sowing increases the proportion of male plants 
produced, and this results from an insufficient supply of nutriment. 
As a general law, the production of male plants is promoted by the 
want of an adequate supply of food when in an embryonal condition. 
''^Jour, Roy. Microscop. Soc. ^^ ^. 
Classification of Fungi.-ln Cohn's Kryptogamen-Flora von 
Schlesien, Dr. J. Schroter proposes the division of the Fungi into 
the three following groups : I. Myxomycetes ; H. Schizomycetes 
(parallel with the Phycochromacece ; and HI. Euomycetes, distin- 
guished by their spores being formed by a sexual act. 
The Euomycetes are again divided into seven families, viz.: 
