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Botanical Notes. 
Shortia galacifolia, Gray.— Prof. C. S. Sargent has found 
another station for this rare plant. He says, ‘I discovered last 
September in the Blue Ridge, near the boundary between North 
and South Carolina, Shortia, in what is believed to be Michaux’s 
original locality.” 
Sptranthes Romanzoviana.—A. D. Webster (Garden, xxx., p. 
253), tells us that “in all probability this plant has been extermi- 
nated in Ireland, for the two boggy fields in the County of Cork 
where it grew have been ploughed up and planted with pota- 
toes; but F. W. Burbidge (Gard. Chron., xxvi., p. 471) thinks 
that at Bearhaven, Wales, where it has been collected, it has not 
yet ‘“‘been evicted.” It is figured in the Gard. Chronicle (xxvi., 
Pp. 400; xxi., p. 465.) 
A Botanist’s Ramble in Central America. By J. H. Hart. 
(Pamphlet, 8vo, 42 pp., Kingston, Jamaica, 1886.) This is an 
interesting account of a six weeks’ trip to the mainland of Cen- 
tral America, made by the author in company with the Rev. Wm. 
Griffith, a missionary. The time was mostly spent near the great 
lagoon of Chiriqui, where many interesting plants were collected, 
among them a new tree fern, Hemitelia Hartit, Baker. Note is 
made of five varieties of the chocolate tree (Theobroma Cacao) 
_ cultivated, and a distinct wild species, 7. bicolor, H. and B., known 
as Indian chocolate, was also met with. Palms and ferns were 
extremely abundant and in great variety. A list of the species 
collected is appended. 
The Correspondence of Carl Von Linné. The Swedish 
Academy of Sciences has issued a work with this title, containing 
a record of all the correspondents of this famous naturalist, with 
their addresses, dates of birth and death, as well as the date of 
each letter. (Nature.) 
Proceedings of the Club. 
The first autumn meeting was held Oct. 12th, Dr. J. S. New- 
berry in the chair, and 31 persons present. The following were 
elected active members: J. W. Martens, Jr.; W. Beuttenmueller ; 
Miss Winifred Edgerton, Ph. D.; Miss M. G. Tyler ; Miss Mabel - 
Hodges; Thos. E. Jevons, and Henry Ogden. 
