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the collecting of vertebrate fossils, and of these he obtained some 

 eight tons, but he also collected plants and other objects of natural 

 history. He reports having made a ver}' complete collection of the 

 mosses and hepatics of Terra del Fuego and the neighboring main- 

 land of Patagonia. 



Mr. David White of the U. S. Geological Survey, and Mr. Charles 

 Schuchert of the U. S. National Museum, have accompanied Lieuten- 

 ant Peary on his Arctic expedition. They sailed from Boston July 

 1 8th, and expect to return about October ist. They will be landed 

 on the west coast of Greenland in the vicinity of Disco Island and the 

 Noursook Peninsula, and the object of their visit will be to secure for 

 the National Museum a collection of fossil plants, which are known to 

 be abundant at this point. They will also collect living plants, and 

 Mr. White has promised an article on botanizing within the Arctic 

 Circle. 



While spending a few days collecting in the eastern part of Long 

 Island last August, I was fortunate enough to find a quantity of 

 Kfieiffia Allcni near Southampton. This plant has been reported 

 onl)^ from eastern Long Island, and the station where I found it is 

 some distance farther west than any before noted. The plant was in 

 full bloom, the blossom looking much like that of the common even- 

 ing primrose, to which it is closely related. It is commonly called 

 * 'sun-drops." In habit the plant is generally supposed to be ascend- 

 ing or almost trailing; many that I found were cpiite low, but plants 

 were not wanting that were eighteen inches high, and almost erect. 

 In a swamp near the coast, I also found an abundance of Coreopsis 

 rosea, which the 6th edition of Gray's Manual marks rare from Massa- 

 chusetts to New Jersey, in grassy swamps. It was found in standing 

 water and in appearance quite resembled the common robin's plan- 

 tain or fleabane. The rays were rose-purple, a color seldom adopted 

 by plants of its genus.— f/V/^?;v/ .A^ Chitc, ColiDiibia Univ., N. Y. 



In the 6th edition of Gray's Manual of Botany Euphorbia Nicceen- 

 sis is mentioned as being a rare escape at Binghamton, N. Y. This 

 statement is based upon Mr. C. F. Millpaugh's find, and was supposed 

 to be the only station in the United States, although it undoubtedly 

 occurred at that time and years before at other places along the Sus- 

 quehanna valley, and should have been included in previous editions 

 of the Manual. I find this plant along the Susquehanna river for a 

 distance of thirty miles, at the following stations: Union, Vestal, Apa- 

 lachin, Campville, Smithboro, Barton and west of Barton. At Barton 

 it is abundant along roadsides, waste places, and in fields for a dis- 

 tance of half a mile from the village, and is considei"ed bv the resi- 



