14 THE PLANT WORLD. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The New York State lioldinojs of forest lands in the Adirondacks 

 now exceed 1,100,000 acres, and are being increased as fast as appro- 

 priations can he obtained for the purpose. 



Perhaps tlie most highly prized plant in the Botanical gardens of 

 the University of the Upsala, Sweden, is a tig planted and cultivated 

 by the great Linnanis. 



Dr. John M. Coulter, head Profes;^or of Botany in the University 

 of Chicago, is spending the winter in Washington, D. C. Dr. Coulter 

 and Dr. J. X. Kose of the U. S. National Museum, have prepared a 

 ''Synopsis of the Umbelliferse of Mexico and Central America", that 

 is now in press. They are also engaged upon a revision of the North 

 American Umbelliferie. 



In "Bird Life in an Arctic Spring, The Diaries of Dan Meinertz- 

 hagen and 11, T. Hornby"', recently published, a notal)le observation 

 (if true) is recorded. 'Tt is a curious fact that pine and tir trees, when 

 they rot while standing, warp from right to left, and birch from left 

 to rio-ht. This is almost invariablv the case". To what extent can 

 this be verified (or disproved) by American naturalists? 



Dr. F. Kurtz has just published a preliminary paper [Revista del 

 Museo de la Plata, vol. x, pp. 1-18,] in which he announces the finding 

 of a typical Dakota Group fossil flora in Southeastern Argentina. Of the 

 31 species mentioned no less than 27 are common to our Dakota (xroup. 

 This discovery is of the greatest importance as showing the wide dis- 

 tribution enjoyed by plants during the middle Cretaceous time. 



The habitat of the Wild Columbine has been discussed in several 

 numbers of The Plant World. It is frequent in the vicinity of 

 Grand Rapids, and occurs on sparingly wooded hillsides of sand, loam, 

 or in moist creek bottoms amon^ low shrubs: a few times I have found 

 it growing in shaded wet mucky bogs in company with Polt/goiKiftnn 

 (jigantewii Dietrich, Great Solomons-seal, which with us prefers dr\' 

 open ground. — Emma J. Cole, Grand Rapids, Mich. 



