60 THE PLANT WORLD. 



THE SMALL MISTLETOE IN PENNSYLVANIA. 

 By C. F. Saunders. 



THE little mistletoe Bazomnofshyra jnisilla^ first described in 

 1873 by Prof. Peck, as Arceuthohium pusillum, has been re- 

 reported so far from a very limited number of stations. In 

 July last, it was discovered in a new locality by Stewardson Brown of 

 the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, in company with the 

 present writer, in a swamp in Pike County, Penns}^lvania. As usual, 

 it was found on the spruce, and the trees attacked by it were conspicu- 

 ous among the others by a peculiar, bunched appearance of the 

 branches and twigs. On July 12, the date of collection, the plants 

 were scarcely mature, the most robust being little over an inch high, 

 while many were just showing themselves like tiny warts on the 

 bark. 



Carex jpauceflora,, Lighf. , a rare sedge of the far north, was col- 

 lected in the same swamp. It has been reported but once before from 

 the limits of Pennsylvania. 



Philadelphia. 



In a letter to the editor. Prof. Guy L. Stewart, of the Maryland 

 Agricultural College states that the Yew {Taxas minor), is known 

 among the lumbermen and other dwellers in Northern Michigan as 

 shin-tangle from the difficulty experienced in walking over it. Is this 

 species so-called in other portions of the country? 



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In the March number of the Bulletin of the Torry Botanical Cluh, 

 Mr. E. L. Morris presents a valuable revision of the species of Plant- 

 ago commonly referred to Plantago Patago7iica, recognizing sixteen 

 species and varieties of which ten forms are regarded as new. 



