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for nearly everything I secured was precious. 



I have for some time been especially interested in mosses, and 

 here I found myself in their chosen home. They cushioned the 

 rocks and trees, and often hung over the treacherous holes between 

 the cliffs, drooping in masses like snow from the eaves of a house. 

 They were embarassing from their multitude. Any one mat that was 

 dug up contained always a number of species interlaced. I shall 

 have work for months in disentangling and naming them. 



These few notes, I am aware, contain no information, but are 

 given in hope that they may serve, perhaps, to call up to the minds 

 of some a pleasant picture of two beautiful regions. I hope others 

 of your readers may yet have an opportunity to dwell, as I did, for 

 two months, among these magnificient mountains, and to contrib- 

 ute a little more knowledge of a flora so rich and fascinating. 



— W. W. Bailey, Broun University. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Lactuca Scariola, L. — I collected Lactuca Scariola, X., in Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, August 11, 1882.— R. S. Hubbard. 



Gentiana crinita. — In the November number of the Gazette. Mr. 

 Davenport calls attention toalbinism in Gentiana crinita. Ihaveseveral 

 times in former years seen cases of this. One superb plant which I found 

 near Diamond Hill, 11. I., about two years ago, had thirty or more blos- 

 soms, all pure white. I have this year had a white specimen sent me 

 from near Providence. I should have noticed these before, had I not in 

 one instance, been informed that cases of albinism were too trivial to 

 report. If so good a botanist as Mr. Davenport considers them of conse- 

 quence,! shall at least be in excellent company. -AY. W. Bailey, Provi- 

 dence, R. T. 



Lactuca Scariola, L.— Mr. Foerste's suggestion, in the November 

 No. of the Gazette, respecting the probability of this plant being na- 

 turalized in Wisconsin, had already been verified. In Aug. 1880, 1 met 

 with it, well established, along a road side, in Mukwanago, about 40 

 miles west of Milwaukee. In August of last year, I found it growing 

 in abundance along R. R. tracks and upon the banks of the Maumee 

 River, in the City of Toledo, O., and, in October last, I again met with 

 it, growing near the Cattle Yards, at East Buffalo. To all these places 

 it had evidently "come to stay." Doubtless, however, it had reached E. 

 Buffalo as an adventive from the West. — David F. Day, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Ejection of the Seed in Cereus Enioryi, Engelm — I have a plant 

 of Cereus Emoryi which produced last summer three flowers at the apex 

 of a previous year's stem. Not being familiar with the species, the 



