2o6 THE PLANT WORLD. 



Volume XVI of the "Transactions of the Kansas Academy of 

 Science," for the years 1897-1898, has just been distributed. It con- 

 tains quite a number of botanical articles, among them an interesting 

 floral horaloge for Kansas; additions to the flora of Kansas, bringing 

 the total number of species found within the state to 3,024, of which 

 1,997 are flowering plants and 1,027 cryptogamic. The Kansas Urc- 

 dinece are listed, and now number 154 species. 



Mr. Chamberlain and his fellow orchid-lovers are moved in no 

 small manner by the recovery of Lalia Jonghcana, a long-lost and 

 superb species of orchid, which M. Forget, traveling in Brazil, has 

 just rediscovered. As far back as 1855 M. Libon found it, but he 

 died immediately, leaving no hint of the locality and of the original 

 consignment. Baron Schroder now alone possesses a specimen. 

 Some thousands of imported plants have been sold at auction this 

 week. 



In answer to Mr. Charles L. Pollard's request for notes on Aqiii- 

 legia Canadensis, I may say that near Corning, N. Y., it is found on 

 the north side of a hill about 200 feet high, near the stone quarries, 

 in the edge of the wood, and for more than 15 years lai'ge clumps 

 have been growing a few feet from the carriage road, on a side hill 

 that has been cleared for at least 20 years; it may be much longer. 

 It thrives among stone heaps, the roots having but little soil and 

 pushing their way between the stones. Small clumps are found in 

 the woods, but I have never seen as large clumps or flowers as the 

 ones on the hillside. I have had 90 varieties of wild flowers in my 

 garden at once, and know "where to find the wild flowers." — Adele 

 D. Moore, Corning, N. V. 



Replying to Mr. Pollard's query in the last number of The Plant 

 World, I should agree that the habitat ascribed to Aqiiilegia Cana- 

 densis in Central New York, by Mr. Topping, is most unusual. Occa- 

 sionally the plant flourishes in a rich wet woodland where a steep de- 

 clivity gives way to the gentler slopes of a hillside, and in such cases 

 evidently it might extend its range into a lowlying bottom. But in 

 Central New York, the region referred to, its habitat is almost in- 

 variably the steep cliffs and precipices of the limestone ravines, 

 where it seems usually to choose the most inaccessible situations. 

 Less often it occurs on conglomerate, and from such situations may 

 well stray into less rugged stations; but this must be, I feel sure, 

 unusual. With it, at least in Madison and Onondaga counties, occurs 

 habitually Arabis lyrata, a plant hardly suited for living in a "low 

 moist meadow." — William R. Maxon^ U. S. National Museum, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



