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The Garden for January 21st contains a handsome colored plate of 

 Phacelia eavipanularia as flowering in the Royal Gardens, Kew. It is 

 a native of southern California. It is much prized in England, and 

 should be more extensively grown in this country. 



Mr. J. G. Baker, who has long been connected with the Kew Gar- 

 dens, and for the last few years has been Keeper of the Herbarium, 

 retired on account of the age limit, on January 12. He expects now to 

 spend some time in the south of France, enjoying a well earned 

 holiday. The promotion of the first assistant, Mr. W. Botting Hems- 

 ley, is well received on this side of the Atlantic. — J. N. Rose, U. S. 

 National Museii m. 



With one exception, the species of Coreopsis occurring within the 

 range covered by Gray's Manual, possess ray-flowers that are yellow 

 or partially so. The exception is C. rosea, whose rays are rose- 

 colored or pink. It is to be found in swampy regions, near the coast, 

 and when in bloom might readily be taken at first sight for an aster. 

 The writer has occasionally come upon it in the New Jersey pine bar- 

 rens, where it grows on wet, sandy beaches or in shallow water. The 

 rays have a fashion of hanging down at a considerable angle, and as 

 the plants stand out in the broad sunshine, the little round heads of 

 disk florets surrounded by the drooping rays, bring to mind some 

 patient fisherman humped up by the water, with hat-brim pulled down 

 all around in order to protect his complexion from the sun. — C. F. 

 Sa II n de rs , PJi ila dclpJi ia . 



While collecting on eastern Long Island last summer I found a 

 number of plants which have since been identified as Hypochezris 

 radiata. The species is considered adventive from the Old World and 

 has before been reported from southern New Jersey only. I find, 

 however, among a collection, of plants from western Washington made 

 by F. H. Lamb, a specimen of the same plant. In the Long Island 

 station the plant seemed thoroughly at home, scattered about on the 

 sand hills where the soil was not too poor. In aspect the plant strongly 

 suggests a hybrid between the hawkweed and the dandelion. The 

 leaves which spread flat on the ground are very similar in shape to 

 those of the dandelion, but they are covered with the hairy pubescence 

 of the hawkweed. The flowers also are much like dandelion blossoms 

 but are borne on long scapes, sometimes singly, but oftener two or 

 more on each stem. — Willard N. Clnte, Neiv York. 



