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in the East, who wished to try to grow them. I dug some of these plants in 

 November, after the rains had commenced, and discovered that the root mass 

 and little plantlet had greatly increased in size. I dug some of the staked 

 plants early in March, and found them still progressing in growth, and others 

 that were not dug came up and bloomed by the stakes. 



My conclusions are, that Sareodes is an herbaceous perennial, continuing 

 through many years, and, by the little plantlet always being found beloiv the 

 older one, that it descends a little deeper into the earth each season, and this 

 accounts for the great depth to which some of the under-ground stems penetrate. 



As to the germination and infant life of Sareodes I know nothing, but am 

 satisfied that they receive their nourishment from the earth after they attain 

 any considerable size. — Mrs. R. M. Austin. 



New Indiana Plants. — Four species have just been added to the list of 

 known Indiana plants, viz : Asclepias phytolaccoides, growing abundantly in the 

 college grounds at Wabash College, Crawfordsville ; Habenaria orbiculata, Avil la, 

 Ind.; Epilobium augustifolium ; and Sambucus pubens. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Prof. Bureau has been appointed Director of the Jardin des Planles in 

 place of the late M. Decaisne. 



Prof. Lucien M. Underwood has been elected Professor of Geology, 

 Zoology, and Botany in Syracuse University. 



The Department of Agriculture report for 1881-2, contains some in- 

 teresting matter pertaining to bacterial subjects, illustrated with several colored 

 and uncolored plates. 



Thomas J. Howell, in Pop. ScL Monthly, shows that N. Am. plants can be 

 divided into three or four distinct floras, corresponding to the different geolog- 

 ical formations they inhabit. 



Extensive preparations are being made by the Chicago scientific pub- 

 lic for the American Association of Microscopists, which holds its annual meet- 

 ing in that city from August 7 to 10. A large attendance is anticipated. 



The library, of Prof. J. Decaisne, probably one of the finest in Botany, 

 Horticulture and general Natural History sold since Jussieu's time, was sold in 

 Paris last month. The catalogue, containing a portrait of Decaisne, and a bi- 

 'ography by Bornet, covered 480 pages. 



It is to be hoped that there will be a large attendance of botanists at the 

 A. A. A. S. meeting at Minneapolis, beginning August 15th. No better place 

 for botanists could have been selected, and every moment can be made pleas- 

 ant, not only in exploring new ground, but in that congenial companionship 

 which the western worker, particularly, is denied during the greater part of the 

 year. The biological section under Prof. Beal ought to be of great interest, 

 and botanists should make a strong rally to its support. 



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