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In the report of the Proceedings of the Club, it is stated in 
the September BULLETIN that Dr. Newberry had not met with 
Liquidambar in Ohio. I have seen several specimens within a 
few miles of Oxford, Ohio, and in the vicinity of Cincinnati. It 
is abundant in Kentucky and in southern Indiana. It has been 
planted extensively in some of the suburbs of Cincinnati and 
grows well. 
It is also stated in the same number, by C. F. Millspaugh, 
that the usual habitat of Oxalis violacea is on rocks. Where I 
have seen it growing, in southern Ohio, it has almost invariably 
been in leafy mould in shaded, damp woods. 
JOSEPH F. JAMES. 
_ Some Stations for Plants from Kansas.—The following plants 
were collected during a recent trip: Argemone platyceras, Link 
‘and Otto., Larned to Comanche; Cleomella angustifolia, Torrey, 
Larned, Kingman and Wichita; Polanisia uniglandulosa, DC., 
Wichita; Sapindus marginatus, Willd., a tree twenty-five feet 
high and nine inches in diameter, on the Medicine River, thirty 
miles west of Medicine Lodge; Stenosiphon virgatum, Spach., 
Comanche; Mentzelia albicaulis, Douglas, Comanche ; Vernonza 
Baldwinit, Torrey, not as common as in Eastern Kansas (in 
the Catalogue of Kansas Plants this species appears as V. Nove- 
boracensis, var. latifolia, Gray); Eustoma Russellianum, Griseb., 
Great Bend; Stllingia sylvatica, L., Wichita; Funiperus Vir- 
giniana, L., Comanche County, thirty miles west of Medicine 
Lodge. J) HCOVSTER, M.D. 
The Anctent Cities of the New World—Desiré Charnay. 
(Gard. Chron., i., p. 809, June 18th, 1887.) In reviewing this 
work, particular attention is given to the statement that the con- 
centric circles of the mahogany and other trees correspond rather 
to months than years, thus invalidating the calculations of the 
age of many of the Central American ruins. 
Sorghum vulgare, L., as a Drug.--A new application is re- 
ported for that plant of varied utility, Sorghum vulgare, L. Dr. 
A. A. Coleman, of Crawford, Miss., reports that the seeds, of 
which he sends a sample, and which are those called “ chick- 
seeds,” are astringent and hemostatic. An infusion is used by 
