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coming wild in the neighborhood of Lucca. From 1870 to 1882 

 it grew abundantly with Asfer saligmts on the banks of the 

 Adige. The locaHty is now destroyed, but the plants are found 

 in the valley Ceraino and at Avesa, nearby. 



Amorpha friiticosa grows in great quantities at Peschiera and 

 in several other places, where it has evidently been introduced, 

 and now shows a decided tendency to propagate Itself. 



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A. M. V. 



Botanical Notes, 



Laboratory of Biological Research of the Brooklyn Institute. 

 Through the cordial co-operation of the officers of the New York 

 State Fish Commission, and the great personal interest of its 

 President, Mr. Eugene Blackford, the Brooklyn institute has been 

 enabled to open a seaside laboratory for teacliing and research in 

 zoology and botany, under the direction of Dr. Bashford Dean. 

 The laboratory is located at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, 

 thirty-two miles from New York, reached by the Long Island 

 Railway. The session opens on Monday, July 7th, and extends 

 over eight weeks. The fee is twenty-four dollars. The location 

 is a capital one, and an extensive corps of lecturers on special 

 subjects has been secured, those on the botanical side being Dr. 



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Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 



Abies braeteata, (Gard. Chron. vii. 6']2, fig. 112). 



Allamanda violaeea. J. D. H. (Bot Mag. Tab. 7,122). 



Anthracnose, or Blight of the Oak. Byron D. Halsted. (Gar- 

 den and Forest, iii. 295, 296). 

 In this article the '^burning'* and "scorching" of oak trees is 



described and the case is said to be due to the fungus Gleeospo- 



riiim nervisequiim. 



Artificial keys to the genera and species of Mosses recognized in 

 Lesqtiercux and James' Manual of the Mosses of North Amer- 

 ica. Chas. R. Barnes. (Trans. Wise. Acad. Sci. Arts and 

 Letters, viii. 12-81, reprinted. Price 50 cents, 12 for $5.00). 

 The price of this well printed, serviceable little pamphlet, 

 should place it in the hands of all students of American mosses, 

 and we hope the excellent advice given in the preface will be 



