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campaiiulate gibbous, teeth subulate nearly equal unaltered in 

 fruit;" — The flowers are white with a faint rosy tinge. The pedun- 

 cles are not nearly so long as the T. repena% with which it might 

 by a hasty glance be confounded. It has been recorded before as 

 found ou the ballast heaps oi New York City in Bull. 'Vow. Bot. 

 CI lib, VI. p. 356. A careful search in oilier localities may result in 

 its discovery. — Jos. P. James, Cincinnati. 



Aralia racemosa, L. — I have lately found a specimen of this 



species which was so large as to deserve mention. There were four 

 stalks springing from the root, two of them each about an inch in 

 diameter at the base. The largest was six feet high and had some 

 of the top broken off. The leaves were about three feet in length 

 and the leaflets very large. The fruit hung in clusters from 15 to 

 18 inches in length, and the bright red of the ripe berries made it 

 a very attractive plant. The vigorous growth of the plant was of 

 special notice. Gray gives no size for it, but Wood says its height 

 is from three to lour feet, but in the present plant, it must have 

 been between seven and eight before the top was broken off. — J. F. 

 James, Cincinnati 0. 



Notlllai- Exiguaj. — I should be glad if any botanists who 



possess my handbook would make the necessary correction in regard 

 to the transmission of labels. The new ruling practically excludes 

 any label that one would care to send out, and the express compan- 

 ies will thrive at the expense of the Department. 



Your note on the catalepsy of Physoslegia Virginiana should 

 contain a reference to the manner of the action. The flowers are 

 made to assume their definite position by friction of the pedicels 

 against the subtending bracts. Remove the bracts and they at 

 once fall limp. This was shown me by Prof. Goodale in 1879. 



Among a lot of fresh growing plants sent me last spring by 

 Mr. Joseph Jackson of Millbury, Mass., I find a specimen of Tril- 

 lium erect u in with two vigorous flowering stalks arising from the 

 same rootstock and with a common sheath of scales. I have a Cyp- 

 ripedium acaule in like condition. 



I found the larches in Franconia, N. BL, badly injured by green 

 larvae which when touched stood out from the branches like the 

 twigs,which in color they closely resembled. Prof. Packard informs 

 me that they have also ravaged in Maine. — -W. W. Bailey, Brown 

 University. 



The Darwill Memorial.— No more fitting tribute can be paid to 

 the memory of this distinguished naturalist than the Memorial 

 proposed in the circulars sent out from the llo} r al Society and by 

 the home committee of which Dr. Asa Gray is Chairman and Prof. 

 Alexander Agassiz Treasurer. The subscription list contains the 



