100 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST, 



coast. Therefore it was as real an error to say that the 

 Porto Rican "Malanga" is called "Bleeding Heart" as it 

 would be to assert that century plant is the name applied 

 by the Mexicans to species of Ag-ave. Verily, the perpetra- 

 tion of synonomy is fearfully and wonderfully done. — O. 

 W. Barrett, Mayaguez, Porto Rico. [To all of which the 

 editor is willing to agree. He only quoted a bulletin of 

 the United States Government in the first place, and is 

 glad to be shown the true status of the case.} 



A False Violet. — A daintj' little plant is Dalibarda 

 repens, yet so little known that its generic title has to 

 serve for a common name. It belongs to the Rosace£e,but 

 has the aspect of a stemless violet. The flowers, which 

 open about Jul^^ 7, are white, and are usualh' borne singly 

 on scape-like peduncles. Its habitat is damp, mossy 

 woods. — Guelph Herald. 



Dalea Saundersii. — The wanderings of Mr. C. F. 

 Saunders in California have added to the attractiveness of 

 our pages by affording material for various interesting 

 notes and articles, but they have results of greater import- 

 ance. Following upon the news of his return to the East 

 comes the announcement that he has been honored by 

 having a new Dalea named for him by Mr. Parish. The 

 plant was found by Mr. Saunders in the Mojave desert, 

 and to judge from the illustration is a namesake worth 

 having. 



Planning the Garden. — But never set anj^thing in 

 rows. Nature never does that, and Nature is the only 

 gardener who never makes a mistake. Go into the fields 

 and the forests and see how shrubs and plants are ar- 

 ranged there. Here a group, there a group, a result that 

 seems to have no plan back ofit, and yet who can say that 

 Nature did not plan out every one of these clumps and 

 combinations before they came into existence? Tr^^ to 

 make A^our garden look as much like a real wild garden as 

 possible, and the closer you follow after Nature the nearer 

 vou will come to success. — Home and Flowers. 



