NOTE AND COMMENT 



Wanted. — Short notes of interest to the general botanist 

 are always in demand for this department. Our readers are 

 invited to make this the place of publication for their shorter 

 botanical items. The magazine is issued as soon as possible 

 after the 15th of February, May, August and November. 



Impatiens Pallida Alba. — I have neglected to report 

 the finding of this variety in this section, but the item regard- 

 ing it in the August Botanist brought it to mind. For several 

 years I have been finding what I take to be the same variety 

 of the yellow touch-me-not that was reported from Pennsyl- 

 vania some five or six years ago, by C. H. Woodward. I 

 have found it at two stations in this country, one in the north- 

 east corner of this township, ?nd the other near Chesterland. 

 Caves. — Orange Cook, Chardon, Ohio. 



Philippine Woods. — The newcomer in the Orient is 

 usually surprised at finding that soft woods are not uncommon 

 and that a large part of the timber of the region is of medium 

 or light weight. The popular notion of eastern timbers seems 

 to be that they are mainly hard and heavy, ornamental, fur- 

 niture or cabinet woods. This notion is probably due to the 

 fact that until recent years the only eastern woods which have 

 reached the European markets have been a few of the more 

 valuable ones for furniture and cabinet work; as ebony, rose- 

 wood, satinwood, etc. Most European and American works 

 which mention eastern woods at all, consider only examples 

 like satinwood, rosewood or teak and give little or no account 

 of the wood of the great family Dipterocarpaceae which fur- 



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