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data, Calami ntlui CJinopodiam, besides numerous ferns and other 

 plants, which, however, have already been credited to this part of 

 Michigan in Wheeler and Smith's catalogue. Near the water 

 works, east of the city, Zizaniq aqnatiea grew among millions of 

 Wptffia Columbiana, interspersed with Lemna trisulca and L. 

 yolyrrhizq, which the catalogue indicates as growing throughout 

 Southern Michigan. Somklis oteraceus was represented by a tew 

 stray individuals; also Polygonum Pennsylvanicum and P. incar- 

 natum. Ainono- the more common weeds may be mentioned Cich- 

 orium Intykus and Atriplex patula, var. hasta'ta, both of which are 

 found in unusual abundance throughout the city. Along the rail- 

 roads (Enothera biennis, var. muricaia, Diplopappus umbellatus 

 and Cenchrus tnbuloides, were well represented, the last plant 

 ve rytroublesome to the collector. A few other plants may be 

 mentioned, which were found north of the city; Solidago tilmi- 

 foliy, Rudbeckia speciosa, Lactuca leucophcea, Spiranthes Roman- 

 zoviqna, Botrychium tematnm, var. obliqunm and var. dissection. 

 The flowers of the Spiranthes wind in three ranks about the stem, 

 but they are so arranged as to form 4 vertical rows in each spike. 

 I also observed that young individuals were developed from the 

 axils of the lower leaves, which I suppose furnish a means of pro- 

 pagation to the plant. ~-t being well known that most orchids are 

 slow to seed, requiring *he agency of insects in securing fertiliza- 

 tion. Proliferous specimens of Scirpus atrovirens were frequently 

 seen in the fall. 



Fungi were rather scarce. However, the species found were 

 abundantly represented. Among these were Scleroderma mh/are, 

 Ceaster triplex, Jungh.. Bovista plumbea, Pers., Cyathus strhtus, 

 Hoffm., Ho/etas castaneus, Bull.. Agaricus conjinens. Pers.. and 

 Agaricus radical nx. Bull. — Aug. F. Foerste, Dayton, Ohio. 



N otnhe California*. 



The plant commonly known as German ivy (Senecio mikani- 

 oides, Otto) acts much as if it could become naturalized in Califor- 

 nia; though thus far one does not see it growing wild except along 

 streams, and in places where its shoots may have found a lodgment 

 after having been thrown away with the refuse of the gardens. But it 

 is already of quite frequent occurrence in the ravines back of Oak- 

 land and Berkeley, where it flowers regularly and profusely shortly 

 after Christmas. 



Its dense masses of yellow bloom, upon the background of the 

 dark foliage of live oak and bay over which it climbs, give a warm 

 and cheerful look, at this season when flowers are few. 



Owing to the climatic peculiarities of the past winter the com- 

 mon deciduous shrub, Neillia opulifolia, Benth. & Hook., will have 

 *hed its foliage twice in 1883. Its habit is, in this region, to put 



