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ling Hill, Sussex Co., N. J., these three localities being the only 
ones at present known to me in New Jersey. The Q. prinoides, 
Willd., is widely and plentifully distributed through southern and 
southeastern New Jersey, where it is seldom over four feet high, 
and commonly fruits at six inches from the ground, occurring 
also in less abundance in the mountains of the northern part of 
the State, where it grows somewhat larger and stronger, reaching 
a height of eight or ten feet about Waterloo, Sussex Co. Prof. 
Porter has informed me that it has a wide range in Pennsylvania. 
It is found on Long Island, and extends northward along the 
coast to Massachusetts. All the numerous specimens which I 
have examined show a remarkable persistence of leaf and fruit . 
characters, and if it were not assured us on the highest authority 
that the bushy form passes gradually into the tree in the West, I 
should not be at all inclined to regard them as the same species. 
However, as this appears to be the case, I hold that our eastern, 
shrubby form, is, at least, a well marked variety of Dr. Engel- 
mann’s species, and propose for it the name Quercus Muhlen- 
bergit, Engelm., var. HUMILIS. 
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Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 
Adventitious Inflorescence of Cuscuta glomerata known to the 
Germans. C.E. Bessey. (Amer. Nat., xx., pp. 278-279). 
Referring to notes on this interesting subject presented by 
him at the Philadelphia and Ann Arbor meetings of the Amer- 
ican Association, Prof. Bessey remarks that the matter had pre- 
viously been described in Dodel-Port’s Atlas der Botanic. Dr. 
Dodel-Port, after describing the normal branching, says in sub- 
stance: ‘Besides the normal branching there is a copious 
formation of adventitious shoots. These are formed endogenously 
upon the best nourished parts of the Cuscuta stem, and also upon’ 
the parts which bear the haustoria, where the host-plant and the 
parasite are in immediate contact. The rudimentary shoot-buds 
are formed beneath the cortex of the Cuscuta stem, and break 
through in a manner similar to the lateral roots of vascular plants. _ 
They develop either into inflorescences, or upon injury to the 
rest of the plant, into vegetation shoots.” 
