BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



The segments are longer, narrower and with more teeth, all conspic- 

 uously ciliated with stalked glands, as are also the lobes of the in- 



dusium. 



On the north side of a high peak of the Chirricahua mountains, 

 near Apache Pass and Ft. Bowie, S. E. Ariz., around moist granite 

 recks, in shade. Plants solitary, with several fronds, all fertile. 



September 24, 1881, J. G. and Mrs. S. P. Lemmon. 



Dedicated to Mrs. Lemmon, whose maiden name is Sara A. 

 Plummer and whose devotion to science, arduous labors and daring 

 heroism while botanizing in the land of the Apache, entitles her to 

 high honors and this timely recognition.— J. G. Lemmon. 



Another Botanical Laboratory. -One result of Dr. Roth- 

 rock's visit to Europe last year has been the cieation of a well equip- 

 ped botanical laboratory in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. Phis is, to be sure, devoted more especially to the medical as- 

 pects of botany, and forms a prominent feature in the school which 

 that institution has opened for the purpose of fitting young men to 

 study medicine ; but it also aims at giving a thorough grounding in 

 microscopic and in general systematic botany. 



Probably but tew college trustees are aware how general the de- 

 sire for biological instruction has become. In evidence of this we 

 may say that the laboratory under Prof. Rothrock was started in 

 doubt as to whether there would be a single student to avail himselt 

 of its advantages; vet, though it is not three months old, it has its ca- 

 l acity taxed to the utmost and urgent demands for more room and 

 instruments are being made. Not only do we find there the ordinary 

 student and those who are preparing for medicine specially, but teach- 

 ers, physicians, students of architecture and aspirants for naval medi- 

 cal honors, each week bringing in new applicants. In a word, it bids 

 fair to be a first-class success, and the question may now be fairly put 

 to the authorities of other institutions, is it not time for every college 

 that claims respectable standing to furnish such laboratories? 



rlieraciimi aurantiacillll.- Besides the localities already 

 mentioned, I learn that Mr. Redfield, of the Philadelphia Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, collected it also on the Catskills, in another locality 

 besides that of Miss Mary Cope, and Mr. Chas. J. Sprague, of Bos- 

 ton, found it in the summer of 1880 in St. Alban's, Vermont. Mr. 

 Sprague found it covering large patches of bare hilltops where the 

 grass was thin and scant, and in what appeared to be old fields, and 

 '•seemed to have taken full possession." From this expression it is 

 clearly Mr. Sprague's idea that it was not indigenous there, and this 

 appears to be the sum of all I can gather from other collectors. It 

 has not been found in any place where it was unlikely not to have 

 been introduced. It is still a matter of interest as to how it was 

 brought from the seed sowed. I do not know of its being anywhere 

 cultivated in our country, though its beauty might claim that distinc- 

 tion, and so doubt whether it will come under the head of an "es- 

 cape." — Thomas Mef.han. 



