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Pyrus arhutifolia. C. S. Sargent, ((jardcn & Forest, iii. 416, 



% 52). . . 



In this contribution the author contends for specific rank for 

 the two plants generally regarded as var. inelanocarpa and var. 

 erythrocarpa. Marked differences in time of flowering, size and 

 color of fruit and time of its ripening and falling, in liddition to 

 leaf characteristics, are given. Under this arrang:ement we should 



have Pyriis arhutifolia, (L.) L.f for the red-fruited species and 



P, nigra (Willd.) Sargent, for the bhick- fruited one. The point 



seems to us to be well taken. 



Ruelliccs exceptioiiHcIIcs — Sur Plusiciirs. (H. Baillon. (Bull. 



Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 852, S53). 



Descriptions of R, colorata from Peru, and R. Cliiqidtcnsis 

 from Bolivia, (Weddell No. 3495). 

 Scribncr — Professor F, Lanison. (Orchard & Garden^ xii. 149, 



iUustrated). 



Biography, with portrait. 

 Shortia galacifolia. (Garden, xxxviii, 204, 205, plate 768). 



The history of Shortia is here briefly given, accompanied by 

 a full page colored plate of the plant. 



Some Effeets of the Mild Winter, Jacob Schneck. (Bot. Gaz. 

 XV. 209-21 1). 



- The memoranda in this article refer to the vicinity of Mt. 

 Carmel, Ills., and we are told that Malva rotundifolia^ Stellaria 

 media, Aljssnui maritimum, Capsella Biirsa-pastoris, Bellis peren- 

 nis and Lamiiim amplcxicaide were in blossom all winter and 

 were only checked by a spell of cold weatlier in March. 

 Spruce Pine — The Florida. Carl Mohr. (Garden & Forest, iii. 

 402, 403). 



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Describes the habitat and surroundings of Pinus clausa with 

 with its accompanying vegetation. 



Sweet Gu)}i — TJie, (Garden xxxviii. 208, illustrated). ■ 



An account of the introduction into England of Liquidamhar 



styraciflua and its occurrence there. 



Triumfetta scmitriloba, H. II. Rusby. (Reprint from Drug. 

 Bull. Aug. 1890, illustrated). 



Tulip Tree — The, (Gard. Chron., viii. 218, 219, fig. 36). 

 A representation of a large tree in Kew Gardens. 



