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tion of wild plants, including shrubs, herbs and trees, and the imblioa- 

 tion and distribution of such essays, which are to be first published in 

 the Joaraal of the Garden, and republication of them invited from other 

 journals, magazines and newspapers; that they also be issued as sep- 

 arates from the Journal and distributed gratuitously to all interested. 



Resolved, That such essays must be submitted to the Director-in- 

 Chief not later than February first; those accepted for prizes to be pub- 

 lished in the March, April and May issues of the Journal; they must 

 not exceed three thousand words in length and must be clearly written 

 or type-written in triplicate; they become the property of the Garden, 

 which does not undertake to return any essay submitted. 



Resolved, That for the year 1902 the following prizes be offered, 

 payable Aj^ril 15tli: 



1. A first prize of $50. 



2. A second prize of $30. 



3. A third prize of $20. 



Resolved, That the awarding of these prizes be referred, with power, 

 to a committee consisting of Judge Brown, Professor Underwood and 

 the Director-in-Chief. 



It is further arranged that in all lectures, bearing in any way on 

 native plants, delivered under the auspices of the Garden, this topic 

 shall be alluded to; it will be brought out in its very important relation 

 to forests by Mr. Van Brant in his lectures on " Trees, their Flowers 

 and Fruit," to be given at the American Museum of Natural History in 

 April, and will be brought to the attention of \dsitors to the wild parts 

 of the Garden by suitable notices and restrictions. 



Presentation of essays in competition for the three prizes now 

 offered is invited from anyone interested, under the conditions outlined 

 in the foregoing resolutions. — N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief, New 

 York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y. City. 



Notes on Piant Distribution in Nebraska. 



The article in the October Plant World on "Some Interesting 

 Cases of Plant Distribution," has no doubt been as interesting to manj- 

 of your readers as it was to me. I believe we have too little of that 

 kind of information, and should have all that is to be had. I therefore 

 add my little, though some of it is now gro^dng old with me. 



In June, 1891, friends brought me a violet from ten miles south of 

 Atkinson, Holt county, which "whitened the ground like snow" in a low 

 hay meadow on their claim. It turned out to bo Viola lanceolata, not 

 reported west of Minnesota. The same year I found Brasenia peltafa 

 in Swan Lake, twenty-five miles south of Atkinson. It was past flow- 

 ering, but the ranchman, a college graduate, described the flowers, 



