BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 351 



the Botanical Gazette to know that the largest tree of this 

 species on record grows near the village of Santa Maria del Tule, 

 in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. The trunk is 118 feet in cir- 

 cumference, or considerably greater than the largest of the Cali- 

 fornia Sequoias, but the height is said to be only 120 feet, or de- 

 cidedly less than the tallest specimens of this species growing in 

 Indiana. [Note. — I find in three different accounts of this tree 

 some marked discrepancies as to the dimensions stated. Thus, 

 in Humboldt's " Travels " the girth is given as 118 feet; an arti- 

 cle in Frank Leslie's " Popular Monthly " (vol. v., March, 1878, 

 p. 351) gives the girth as 117 feet 10 inches, while another in 

 the " Popular Science Monthly " makes the following statement : 

 "When Humboldt saw it, in 1851, it measured 42 feet in diame- 

 ter, 146 feet in circumference ; and 282 feet between the extrem- 

 ities of the two opposite branches."] 



Page 88. Pinus mitis. The interrogation mark should be 

 removed from this species, which has since been ascertained to 

 be the one growing on the hills of Southern Illinois. I have no in- 

 formation respecting the size of this tree as growing in the region 

 referred to, but the following clipping from the Shenandoah Val- 

 ley refers to what is evidently regarded as an unusually large 

 specimen for that portion of Virginia : 



"Mr. Samuel Olinger, residing near Quicksburg, Va., a short time ago cut 

 and had sawed into lumber a yellow pine tree, which, we think, is entitled to 

 the appellation of the ' King of the Forest ' The result was 2,420 feet of lum- 

 ber, inch measure. He took 91 feet in length from the tree, and the last cut 

 squared 15 inches. It is thought, had the saw been large enough to cut through 

 the first cuts without hewing them down, the result would have been at least 

 3,000 feet of inch lumber; the saw cutting only 21 .V inches, much had to be 

 hewed off of the logs." 



In conclusion, I would like to request those who are interested 

 in the subject to make measurements of large or full grown trees 

 whenever opportunity offers. The woods are fast disappearing, 

 and even in the remnants the finest trees are constantly being 

 culled. There are several species of which we have no satisfac- 

 tory measurements, and to these attention is particularly directed. 

 They are the following : Magnolia acuminata, Tilia heterophylla, 

 jEsculus glabra, JE. flava, Negundo aceroides, Bhustyphina, 

 Robinia pseudacacia , Primus Americana, P. serotina, Pirus an- 

 gustij'olia, P. coronaria, Crataegus (all the species except subvil- 

 losa), Amelanch'ier Canadensis, Aratia spinosa, Viburnum Lenta- 

 go, V. prunifolium, V. dentatum, Fraxinus pubescens, F. viridis, 

 F. sambucijolia, Ulmus alata, U. fulva, Celtis Mississippiensis, 

 Carya sulcata, Quercus bicolor, Q. coccinea, Q. falcata, Q.lyrata, 

 Q. Michauxii, Q. nigra, Q. phellos, Q. sfeltata, Castanea Ameri- 



