ititltii StIIf tit^ 



Vol. /. 



JUNE, 1876. 



A^o. 8. 



Some notes from Pulaski County, Va.— During a ramble on the shores of 

 Kew River I found a third locality of Pachystima Canbyi, as follows : We started 

 from Robt. Calfee's down a road to the river, came out at Mr. Howard Calfee's, not 

 far below "Cos<e;''s Fe/-n/," Pulaski Co., or several miles from Major Graham's 

 Iron Furnace. From Howai-d Calfee's we strolled up the river under the huge 

 rocky cliff's, until we reached a point where a rivulet empties into the river. Here 

 we ascended the steep hillside to a spot called (as usual) after his Satanic Majesty. 

 It is a huge cleft, rent by an earthquake or some rocket of the devil whose name it 

 bears. At the bottom of the cleft, Mr. Forney tells me, he found Phacelia Purshii. 

 I noted Saxifraga Virginiensis, and Draha ramosissima as strange. Now ascending 

 a little above the Devil's Cleft, with your, eyes open, Pachystima am be found. 

 Along the river bank we saw Claytonia CaroUniana, Hydrophyllum appendiculatum, 

 a Lonicera {sempervirens?) on the cliff's, Ehus aromatim; Taxus haccata; Rnellia; Bap- 

 ti'Sia astralis; etc. At Mr. Forney's we have Dindia; Chrysogonum; Pachystima; 

 Asarum Virginicum and macrophyllum; Corydalis; Hydrastis; Rhus aromatica; Draha 

 verna and ramosissima; Trudescantia; Ptelea trifoliata; Jussicea decurr^ns; Dianthera 

 Americana; Passifiora lutea; Taxus haccata; IS'egnndo; Aplectrrim; Asplenium Pnta-mu- 

 raria; Holcus lanatus, 30 acres, passim ; Aster ohlongifolius; Halesia tetraptera; Silphi- 

 um perfoliatum; Zanthorhisa; Boykinia; Aralia qnin'iuefolia; Cacalia Suaveolens and 

 reniformis. This ricli hill is unchanged from that primeval condition when the 

 productions of nature were of a gigantic type. Tlie animal kingdom has degen- 

 erated, but the mineral and vegetable hold their own. The bosom and bowels of 

 the earth are crammed with iron ore, zinc, lead, copper et id omne genus; while 

 vegetation luxuriates on the decomposition of such hardy products. I should 

 have directed tlie notice of the Centennial botanist and geologist to this region, 

 but it would have been unfair to the country at large to sustain tlie comparison. 

 Delphinitim tricorne or azureiim is distended to the utmost limits of its genus, like 

 a fat baby of a few years old weighing over a hundred instead of thirty. Its deep 

 bright blue, or rather purple, is magnificent beyond description. Erythronium 

 full as wide as the name just written, witli beautiful bright spots. — Howard 

 Shriver, April 22d. 



Some Notes from Herbert E. Copeland. — The revelations given by tlie 

 blunders of Nature have always an interest that her ordinary handicraft does not 

 possess. Through these, it has been said, we learn tlie plan of the work. The 

 field botanist is constantly given opportunities for these rare insights and learns 

 to record them after forgetting some of great personal value. 



As an illustration of tlie homology between the parts of the flower and the 

 leaf, I have an example in a brancli of Posa hkoula, that has petals arranged as 

 leaves, alternate and single, but highly colored, while a perfect flower and ordi- 

 nary leaves are borne higher up. 



Bearing on the proof of intergrading of parts are wild double flowers It is 



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