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the South African College, has begun to carry out researches on 

 this unique form. His results, thus far, include the development 

 and germination of the spines. It appears that the state of the 

 country, Damara land, prevented a full collection of material at 

 the time of Professor Pearson's visit. We expect that further 

 opportunity for collection and study will be afforded. 



To read the account of many other matters of especial interest 

 to the botanist in the Xc'K' Phyfohgist,'^- from which these notes 

 are gleaned, makes one humanly envious of the attending visitors. 

 It must certainly have been a rare treat of permanent value. 



The following plants are in bloom (April 12) at Lakehurst. in 

 the pine barrens of Xew Jersey : Pyxie, or " flowering moss," 

 Py.viihvtthcra harbulata; leather-leaf. Cassandra calyculata; whit- 

 low-grass. Dvaha vcnia: arbutus, Epigaea re pens: ground ivy, 

 Nepeta gleehoiiia: violet, Viola palniata, var. cucnUata; red or 

 swamp maple, Aecr nibnnii ; wood-rush, Liiciila caiiipesfris; 

 smooth alder. A! mis serrulala: dandelion, TaraLvaciiiii ofiiciiiale; 

 sand-m_\rtle, LeiopJiylhuii buxifoUum (in bud) ; sweet fern, 

 Myrica asplenifolia (in l)ud). 



ERRATA. 



The age of the writer of the competitive essay " The Devil's 

 Tongue " which appeared in the January issue, should have read 

 15 years, not 13. 



* November, 1905. 



