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NOTES MD NEV5. 



Mr. John M. Holzinger has printed a list of mosses collected on 

 Pike's Peak, Colorado, at an elevation of 12,000 to 14,000 feet, which 

 includes nineteen species in twelve different genera. Several species 

 of Grininiia and OrtJioti'ichiiui have not yet been critically studied, 

 and give promise of interesting results. 



Dr. Joseph Crawford, a well-known Philadelphia botanist, is 

 making an enterprising attempt to cultivate that shyest and smallest 

 oi oviX iQ.xus SchizcEa p7isilla. He has succeeded in inducing several 

 plants to survive the winter in a large, covered glass jar among moss 

 and other ferns; they have, however, produced no fertile fronds dur- 

 ing the summer. 



A quantity of tubers of the potato, grown last year, have recently 

 been taken from a rather dry cellar, where they had sprouted. Soine 

 of them had produced new tubers at the expense of the old. In some 

 cases the new tubers were very close to the old ones, while in other 

 cases they were carried out a foot or more on very slender stems. — 

 Dr. W. J. Beal, Michigan Agricultural College. 



At a recent meeting of the Botanical Club of the Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College, Professor C. F. Wheeler exhibited a number of 

 branches, large and small, of the common cottonwood and the large- 

 toothed aspen. These branches, on slow-growing limbs, are much 

 enlarged at the base, and at this spot are brittle and often separate 

 from the tree. Under a cottonwood bushels of such limbs can now be 

 picked up. These trees are common in low land, and like the snap- 

 willow long ago described by Dr. Beal S^Bull. Torr. Bo/. Club, 1882, 

 p. 89 ], this seems to be a device for multiplying and spreading the 

 species. 



During the last week of August this year, while collecting in 

 Cocke county, East Tennessee, I noticed several plants in blossom 

 whose proper flowering time is in early spring. A small bush of the 

 service-berry {A nielancJiier Canadensis ) bore a single raceme of snowy 

 blossoms that looked decidedly odd with their unusual accompaniment 

 of fully developed foliage. The shrub grew on an exposed sandstone 

 ledge above the French Broad river. Several specimens of Shrub 

 Yellow-root [Xanthorhiza apiifo ia) were found, bearing very young 

 fruit, and must have been recently in flower. A few plants of the 

 Violet Wood-Sorrel ( Oxalis violacea), and of the Rue Anemone {Syn- 

 desinon thalictroirfes) were also found in blossom. — Tlios. H. Kearney^ 

 Jr.^ U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



