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scribed species. The species, it hardly seems to me, can be referred to P. in- 

 dusiatus, or any of the forms designated by different writers under that name. 

 As I understand that species, the veil is always more delicate and with much 

 larger perforations than in our P. duplicalus. Of the true P. indusiatus I have 

 seen specimens from Cuba, and, although it is said to occur also in the United 

 States, I have never been so fortunate as to find it. The name P. indusiatus oc- 

 curs in my List of Fungi, near Boston, in Bull. Bussey Inst., Vol. I., p. 4-33, but, as 

 was explained in a later number of the Bulletin, it was a slip of the pen, and the 

 name intended was duplicates. P. Doemonum includes a number of forms of the 

 Eastern hemisphere, and I have no material for forming an opinion of their 

 relation to our fungus. Phallus Brasiliensis, Schl., whatever its relation to our 

 plant may be, certainly can not replace the name duplicatus which has priority. 

 In conclusion, then, it seems to me that P. togatus, Kalch., is nothing more than 

 P. duplicatus, Bosc, which name must be retained unless some source of informa- 

 tion, at present unknown to me, should show that the species is to be included 

 in P. inditsiatus. — W. G. Farlow. 



Chorisis ill Podophyllum. — I found a curious specimen of Podophyllum pel- 

 tatum, which, at the advice of Dr. Asa Gray, I will try to describe for the read- 

 ers of the Gazette. It had a scape of about the size of the ordinary flowering 

 plant, maintaining an almost equal thickness the entire length, the flower be- 

 ing borne sidewise at the tip, with no pedicel of its own. The inner row of 

 petals showed an excellent gradation of dedoublement, from the entire petal, 

 through one cleft in the middle, to a petal which was divided into two distinct 

 parts. Of the twenty-one stamens, two were grown together, and on other 

 plants I have occasionally found even three of them thus developed. Cases of 

 dedoublement in the stamens are by no means rare with us. — Aug. F. Foerste, 

 Dayton, Ohio. 



Notelets. — I have a few field-notes to communicate. In the first place, I 

 am much impressed this year by what may be called the excessive blooming of 

 the maples ; I certainly have never seen anything like the display made by 

 Acer saccharinum, L., a week ago, and now by A. pseudo-platanus. In both cases 

 I speak of trees in cultivation about our city streets. A. dasycarpum, Ehr., a fre- 

 quent shade tree, is now in abundant fruit. I did not notice any unusual 

 blooming in the species A. rubrum and A. platanoides. In the latter I have long 

 found it extremely difficult to discover the pistillate flowers; the staminate are 

 certainly much in excess. I know two trees of A. rubrum, L., standing side 

 by side, that are strictly dioecious, and others that have a tendency in that di- 

 rection. A. saccharinum came into flower here May 4th. 



The alders, of which I noted the surprising lack of staminate catkins last 

 vear, have this season outdone themselves in their profusion of male flowers. 

 They were a most beautiful sight. The date of blooming of some other plants 

 maybe of interest. April 11th, Viola odorata; 12th, Crocus vernus ; 19th, 

 Epigrea repens; 26th, Taraxacum Dens-leonis; 27th, Forsythia virdissima and 

 Magnolia grandiHora ; May 3d, yEsculus Hippocastanum in leaf, in flower the 

 21st; 5th, Oakesia sessilifolia ; 9th, Amelanchier Canadensis; 13th, Menyan- 



