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one give any definite information in regard to the Boston Back 
Bay locality ? 
The plant, as it occurs in Rhode Island, is 144-2 ft. high, 
sometimes scarcely branched, but usually much branched either 
below or above; with solitary naked pedunculate involucrate 
head-like clusters of blue flowers, 4-34 of an inch in diameter. 
Flowers pedicellate ; calyx-lobes and the divisions of the deeply 
parted corolla linear; anthers united; ovary and fruit 2-celled; 
ovules and seeds numerous. J. FRANKLIN COLLINS. 
Brown Universiry HERBARIUM, PROVIDENCE. 
Botanical Notes, 
Lhe second annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America 
will be held in Buffalo, N. Y., on Friday and Saturday, August 
21 and 22, 1896. The Council will meet at 1:30 p. m, on Friday, 
and the Society will be called to order at 3 p. m., by the retiring 
president, Dr. William Trelease, Director of the Missouri Botanical 
Garden. The President-elect, Dr. Charles E. Bessey, Professor of 
Botany in the University of Nebraska, will then take the chair. 
The afternoon session will be devoted to business. At the even- 
ing session the retiring President will deliver a public address on 
“ Botanical Opportunity.” The sessions for the reading of papers 
will be held on Saturday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The Botanical 
Society of America is affiliated with the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, whose sessions this year begin 
on Monday, August 24th, in Buffalo. 
C. R. Barnes, Secretary. 
Reviews. 
The Structure and Development of the Mosses and Ferns (Arche- 
goniatae). By Douglas Houghton Campbell. 544 pp. 8vo. 
Price $4.00. Macmillan & Co. 1895. 
This book has been welcomed by all students of the Mosses 
and Ferns and has everywhere been received with gratitude. From 
the fact that it gives us in a compact form and clear style the most 
recent results of foreign investigation into the life-history and em- : : a 8 
