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Botanical Notes. 



Is there a second species of Conradina ? Mr. Gerald McCartliy 

 recently found on the banks of the Congaree River, near Colum- 

 bia, S. C, a " shrubby bush " which closely resembles in foliage 

 and appearance Conradina canescens. There were found upon 

 the specimens, however, a few calyxes in fruit, which prove that 

 it cannot be that species. The calyx is not at all villous; the 

 lower teeth are broad and barely acute ; the upper lip is nar- 

 rowed to the obscurely three- toothed apex; and the seeds are 

 more than twice as large. A single imperfect corolla detected 

 among the leaves is vtry much like that of C, canescens, but 

 there is only a single pair of short, stout filaments. Whoever 

 maybe collecting in that region during the coming season should 

 look for this plant m flower, S. W, 



Nezv Botanical Laboratories and Museums at Harvard Uni- 

 versity. — We have learned with much pleasure that Professor 

 Goodale has succeeded in obtaining the sum desired for the erec- 

 tion of an addition to the Agassiz Museum. It is, perhaps, 

 known to our readers that the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 constitutes the north wing, and the Peabody Museum of Archae- 

 ology the south wing of the proposed University Museum. The 

 Botanical Section, now in process of erection, will occupy seventy 

 feet of the Oxford Street front of the quadrangle. In the plans 

 which we have received we note that ample accommodations 

 have been provided for Professor Goodale's and Professor Far- 

 Iow*s laboratories, and for suitable lecture rooms. Parts of the 

 first, third and fourth floors of the building, which is to be six 

 stories high, have been reserved for the Botanical Museum. It 

 is proper to state that these new arrangements do not contem- 

 plate any change in the status of the Herbarium. The only es- 

 sential lack that we notice in the plans is that they provide com- 

 paratively little north light, the exposure being chiefly east and 

 west 



A Syllabus of '' A Course of Lectures on Forest and Forest 

 Prodttcts, by Professor G. L. Goodale, M.D.," delivered before 

 the Lowell Institute, Boston, February and March, 1888, has 

 been issued, including plans for twelve lectures and covering a 



