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when the raised veins on the under surface renders it somewhat 
roughish to the touch. The broadly-margined petioles are also 
strikingly characteristic, so that Dr. Gray, to whom the plant was 
sent a short time before his death, wrote me that he had never 
seen before an As¢er with just such leaves. 
No specimens of it have reached me from New England. As 
far as known its range extends from Southern New York and 
Northern New Jersey through Pennsylvania and Western Mary- 
land to Eastern Kentucky and Ohio, but it is likely to be observed 
west and south of these limits. 
, Var. LANCEOLATUS (A. cordifolius, var. lanceolatus, Porter, BuL- 
LETIN, xvi. 68. 
Var. INCISUS (Britton), A. cordifolius, var. tncisus, Britton, BuL- 
LETIN, Xix. 224. , 
To the stations for the latter given by Dr. Britton may be 
added Moosic Lake, Lackawanna County, Pa., where I collected 
it in 1884. 
It may be of interest also to mention that two northern species. 
of the same genus have been lately found in this neighborhood, A. 
Patulus, Lam., at Bethlehem by E. A. Rau, and A. amethystinus, 
Nutt., on the Delaware near Easton, by A. A. Tyler. 
Tuomas C. PorTER. 
Botanical Notes, 
Our Index to Recent literature relating to American Botany. 
An editorial in the « Botanical Gazette” for May makes flattering 
reference to this department of the BuLLETIN, but expresses the 
wish that something more extensive and complete might be fur- 
nished for recording the writings of American botanists—some- 
thing on the plan of Just’s «« Botanical Jahreshericht,” which forms 
two thick octavo volumes each year, and is supposed to record 
and abstract all botanical writings the world over, but which has 
always been markedly deficient in its allusions to American publi- 
cations, and which is always from 18 to 30 months behind the 
time. 
The suggestion appears to us as a very happy one, and the ~ 
Present editors of the BULLETIN would gladly see it carried out. — 
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