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new form to avoid decapitation by the mower. As it roots at 

 every joint it is another species hard to eradicate, — Ed.] 



Evening Primrose Names. — Commenting on the article 

 in the last number, Prof. O. A. Stevens writes : "The species 

 to which the name pallida is applied is a night blooming one, but 

 we have a closely related one, pinna ti fid a, which appears to be 

 day-flowering according to my observations. There has been 

 considerable confusion in the use of these names. I notice also 

 that you do not mention the species serrnlata, a very common 

 day-flowering plant of our prairie region. I do not know 

 whether it has ever been cultivated or whether it is capable of 

 being so. The Pachylophus is truly a beautiful thing, grow- 

 ing as it does with us on the bare buttes in the Bad Lands. I 

 have a very distinct recollection of trying to collect seeds from 

 it an finding the cr(nvns so woody that I nearly wore out mv 

 fingers trying to twist out the capsules". — [The species called 

 pallida is apparently a stray from farther west. A confusion 

 of names is likely responsible for the misapplication. The 

 form named is dav-blooming where we have seen it growing. 

 Ed.] 



Lii.iF,S FROM Seeds. — With regard to your note on Easter 

 lilies from seeds in the February number it mav be interesting 

 to mention a hardy lily that is easily raised from seeds. I 

 have reference to Liliuui regale the new lily from China in- 

 troduced by Professor Wilson of the Arnold Arboretum sev- 

 eral years ago. The gardener on the Dukes farms, Somer- 

 ville, N. J. sowed seeds of this lily in the green-house during 

 January, trasplanted the seedlings to well prepared beds in the 

 summer where by fall they had developed bulbs of consider- 

 able size. These he lifted and stored for the winter setting 

 them out again in the early spring. A large precentage of 

 them flowered the following July. A year later, having been 

 left undisturbed, they produced a full crop of flowers. Thus 



