BOTANICAL GAZETTE. jjj 



The co-operation of all our botanical associates is solicited in 

 this regard, as a matter of common interest and advantage. For 

 we are all equally concerned in forwarding the progress of the 

 Flora of North America; and we may confidently expect from our 

 botanical associates their sympathy, their forbearance, and their 

 continued aid. 



Albinism in Gentiana crinita.— I noticed in the window 

 of one of our Boston city florists a few mornings ago two large 

 bunches of white fringed gentian, and on enquiry learned that they 

 came from Middlesex County, Mass. The petals of the open tiowers 

 were creamy white, and the face had a beautiful satiny lustre. 



Later my friend Storrow Higginson informed me that he had 

 seen in another florist's window white gentians that were gathered 

 in Brookline, Mass. Mr. Higginson procured a specimen for anal- 

 ysis, but could not find any other difference between it and the 

 normally blue flowers. He commented, however, on the perfect 

 whiteness of the fringe. 



I do not now recall any previous mention of albinism in this 

 flower,although it may have been recorded. I have not time at present 

 to look it up, but in any case a record of the present instances 

 may be of interest. — Geo. E. Davenport, Medford, Mass. 



Trifolilim hybridlim, L. — On reading, in the October num- 

 ber of the Gazette, Mr. James 1 note on this species of Trifolium, 

 I thought it might be of interest to note, that in Western Canada 

 it is not at all uncommon, and about London I find it plentiful. It 

 occurs not only in old fields and along fence sides, but I have found 

 it in woodlands and along the borders of cedar swamps at quite a 

 little distance from any cultivated ground, showing that here at 

 least it has become pretty firmly fixed. 



In a synopsis of the Flora of the Valley of the St. Lawrence 

 and Great Lakes, published by Profs. Macoun and Gibson, in the 

 Canadian Journal for January 1877,it is catalogued as "Introduced. 

 Cultivated fields and along fences. Is very extensively cultivated 

 in the West instead of T. pratense." 



It is also reported from Eastern Canada in the vicinity of Ot- 

 tawa, in the proceedings of the Ottawa Field Naturalist's Club for 

 1879 and '80, and in a letter just to hand from Prof. Macoun, he 

 tells me that he found this species of Trifolium growing most lux- 

 uriantly at the foot of the Schickshook Mountains, Quebec, in the 

 vicinitv of an old camp, thirty miles from any cultivation. — T. J. 

 W. Burgess, M. D., London, Ontario, Canada. 



A New Polyporns.— Polyporus reniformis, n. sp. Pileus 

 sessile or substipitate, reniform or dimidiate, ascending, concave 

 above and convex below; the surface ferruginous, concentrically 

 sulcate and subzonate; the margin thin and acute; the context 

 ferruginous, soft, floccose, covered with a thin rigid rather elastic 



