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r.imend leueocephrda, Mx , Ehytii-h'ixporn, iiiiicriixtdi'htjii, Torr., ('are.v f/igontea, Rudge 

 CherokeensiH, Sclik , and rerrnrosn, E\\., Piinpuldiii aii(liil(<tuiii, Poir., Paawim? inolle 

 Mx., and r/i/mnor/irpnm. Ell., <'r<itti'i/i/K (ipiifoHii, M\., and Axpiiliuin rn'Matiun, Swartz, 

 vai'.. Fhtridanuiii, with others previoiisl_y tletected. 



Other plants seen growing- sparingly upon the Keys were (Jaiuiralia ohtusifulin, 

 DC, Rhizophiira Mangle, L., and Ldf/uncularvi rtifi'mnnd. (4aertn., these with a few others 

 mentioned find here perhaps their northern limit. 



'Jlie arrangements (-(jmpleted, the i)resent tloi'a about exhausted, I was quite will- 

 iiiiito depart southward in a small schooner beyond the distant highlands of Tampa to 

 enter U|>on the study of a new Meld of naturi-'s richest tloral displays. — Dr. A. P. (tak- 



BKK. 



]NoTRS ON THE History OF Hkijanthis ti;berosiis, the so-called .lERrsAi.EM 

 Artichoke; by J . lldinmimd Trnmhull n/id Akii C'ray, American Journal of Science 

 and Arts, May, 1877. — We make the following extract: "Linuanis, in the Species Planta- 

 rum, gave to Heliiuithux tnher<>Kii<< the 'habitat in Brasilia.' In his earlier Ifortim Clif- 

 fortiiinus the haldtat assigned was 'Canada.' M. Alphonse DeCandolle, in his Geo- 

 graphie Butaidque, XL, 824, (1855), refers to this as 'decidedly an erroi-, at least as to 

 Canada properly so-called," assigns good reasons for the opinion that it did not come 

 from Brazil, nor from Peru (to which the name under which it appeared in cultivation 

 in the Farnese gai'deu seemed to refer), but in all probability from Mexico or the Unit- 

 ed States. He adds that Humboldt did not meet with it in an}- of the Spanish colonies. 



About this time I received from my friend ^md correspondent, the late Dr. Short, 

 of Kentucky, some long and narrow tul)ers of Hcliaiithns (hirinu'roiclex, Ijam., with the 

 statement that he and some of his neighbors t'ound them good food for hogs, and, if I 

 rightly remember, had planted them for that purpose. They were planted here in the 

 B ttanic Garden; after^two or three years it was found that some of the tubers produced 

 wer(! thicker and shorter; some of these were cooked along with Jerusalem Artichokes, 

 and found to resemble them in flavor, although coarser. Consequently, in tlie second 

 edition of my Minnni! of tin' lintunii of flu Xorf/nr/i ruitcil ^sV'/^.v (185(i), it is stated that 

 //. (loronici>i(lex is most pro!)ably the original o\' I/, fuhfrosns. This opinion was 

 strengthened year after j'car by the behavior of the tubers, ami by the close similarity 

 of the herbage and flowers of the two plants, as they grew side by side; indeed, as the 

 two patches were allowed to run together in a waste or neglected place, they have be- 

 come in a measure confounded. Wishing to obtain an unmixed stock, I applied last 

 autumn to Prot. J. M. Coulter, i)f Hanover, Indiana, and received from hiu) a good 

 number of tubers from wild plants of ihc ncigliborhooil, which will no^v be grown. 

 Some of these were slender, some thicker and shorter, and a few were to all ajipearance 

 identical with Jerdsalem artichokes. If they were really all from one stock, as there 

 is reason to lielieve, the (pn^stion of the origin of ITcUantlnix tiilwroxiis \> well nigli 

 settled. 



Additions TO the Fr,ORA ok low v. — Since my last icporl, I find the following 

 rare plants, to be added to Arthur's ( ' (tiilo'i-ne ot' Iowa Plants, disco\(M'i'd in .mounting 

 my collection: 



Eiiphorhio ohtuxfito. P irsh.. Prof. V. ].. IIai\{'y, ISTo, I)es Moines river Itaiiks near 

 Iluudioldt. 



lldliendiiii olitiimitii, Tjudl., Mrs. .1. McNeil, ISTo. abuiulant in Hai'rison Co., Iowa, 

 groves. 



Dexiiiodiinit jxn/c/floriini, DC. (rroves, Ames, 187(i. 



lfi/p<rinni/ innlltiorinn. Michx. Brink of Cedai- Hi\er. five miles .above Cedar Rap- 

 ids, June 26, 1876. 



Cymopti'ruit glomi-nifiiti!. Prof F. L. Harvey, 1875, IHunboldt, la. A rare |)lanl here. 



iSefar/K fldlicn, Kuntli., College Farm. Ames, 1876. 



