1 NOTE AND COMMENT 



Wanted. — Short notes of interest to the general bot- 

 anist are always in demand for this department. Our readers 

 are invited to make this the place of publication for their 

 botanical items. It should be noted that the magazine is is- 

 sued as soon as possible after the fifteenth of each month. 



A Nature Study Society. — Prof. M. A. Bigelow, Teach- 

 ers College, N. Y., has undertaken the formation of a society 

 for the advancement of all phases of nature study and the co- 

 operation of those interested in the work is requested. Prof. 

 Bigelow will be glad to have them communicate with him at 

 the address given. 



The Water Clover. — There never can be rules for the 

 making of common names. The common people will call the 

 plants what they please. In the Garden Maga::ine we find 

 Marsilia quadrifolia called water clover, a name that is quite 

 descriptive, although Marsilia does not belong to the same 

 grand division of the plant world that clovers do. — Fern Bul- 

 letin. 



Injured Sycamores. — Commenting on Mr. Elwyn Wal- 

 ler's note in the June number of this magazine regarding an 

 injury to the sycamores (Plafanus occidcntalis) in New Jer- 

 sey apparently due to frost, Mr. Chas. C. Plitt, notes the same 

 appearance in the vicinity of Baltimore, j\Id. The editor, also, 

 saw evidences of the same thing in Connecticut, later in the 

 season. The injury seems to be very widespread, but as was 

 suggested in the first note, it is due to bacteria and not frost. 

 We are confirmed in this by Dr. M. A. Bigelow of the Teach- 



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