Ill 



that this was really Lindley's supposed dwarf tobacco ; although 

 this might have been inferred from a glance at the figure in the 



Botanical Register, by any one who had seen the plant growing. 

 The ordinal place for the genus should not be considered as 

 settled. Eminent systematists have believed it to be of the 

 Solanaceai, of the Gentianaceae and of the Hydrophyllaceae. The 

 very first impressions, like first glances at doubtful words in a 

 piece of bad handwriting, are very apt to be correct in cases of 

 this kind. And Mr. Lindley recorded that the envelope which 

 held the seeds from which the plants were raised in the garden 

 of the Horticultural Society in 1823, bore the statement that it 

 was from this plant that the Indians prepared the finest of their 

 tobacco. Hesperochiron^ alive or dead, looks Solanaceous enough, 

 and if it be true, and we have no reason to doubt it, that the 

 Indians used it for tobacco, this would go far to indicate that 

 with the Solanaceae are its affinities. 



Cryptogamia versus Heterophyta. 



The term Anthophyta, as an equivalent and substitute for 

 the Linnsean Phaenogamia (or Phanerogamia), seems likely to 

 come into general use in the near future. Its adoption will make 

 necessary a corresponding word to designate collectively the 

 Pteridophyta, Bryophyta and other plants heretofore included 

 under the name Cryptogamia. I suggest for this purpose the 

 term Heterophyta, which seems to me simple, convenient and 

 significant, and exactly in accordance with the previous terms of 

 the series and with the genius of the language. It is so appro- 

 priate, in fact, that I shall not be surprised to learn that it has 

 already been proposed. E. E. Sterns. 



New Variety ofjjythronium, L 



Eryth 



Dog-tooth Violet Sepals white, more or less sufifused with rose 

 purple, varying to bright red ; leaves more strongly mottled with 

 green and brown than in the type. Shaded woods near streams, 

 McLennan county, east central Texas; not rare; flowers in Feb- 

 ruary. 



The sufl'usion of red extends even to the ripening capsule, 



