142 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



Perhaps the most remarkable instance of a flower varying to white is lliat of Lobelia 

 ca.rdianlis\'bv\t Wxa white variety is certainly no improvement on the primary color. 

 The glor}^ of the Cardinal flower is in its intense flaming scarlet that oftentimes lights 

 up the dark ravines as with torches of Are, and this glory vanishes just in proportion as 

 the color changes into rose, white, or as I once found it, variegated wliite and red The 

 white vai'iety is interesting as a novcity, and retains its color on being pressed. The 

 stems, too, are not so dark and purple as the stems in the otlier, and the wliole plant is 

 much lighter colored. 



Blue, pink and ])nrple colors frequently vary to white; yellows seldom. But Mr. 

 Faxon mentioned finding a wliite variety of Impatieiis. 2Mllid<.i^ whicli on being pressed, 

 returned to the pale yellow color of the species. 



These notes might be extended to considerable length, but I have already, I feari 

 trespassed too much on your space. — Geo. E. Davenport, Boston, September, 1877- 



Note. — Since writing these notes, a lady who has found a white variety of Mimulus 

 ringens, tells me that she has also found the white variety of Oera/rdia tenuifolui. 



^ Notes BY C. F. Austin. — Ekpodium biseiuaivm Cf)Lejeitniabiseriata, Aust. in 

 Proc.Phila Acad, for Mardi, 1869, j). 225. Stems (so far as is known) less than % of 

 an inch long and simple, sub-julaceous when dry, resembling short simple stems of 

 FruUanin sqtiarrosn. Dorsal (or lateral) stem-leaves broadly ovate-oval, convex, very 

 obtuse, imbricated, succubous, convolute-ajjpressed when dry, widely spreading when 

 moist, reddish or fuscous brown, entire, mmutely and closely papillose, the wdiole lower 

 margin strongly recurved ; areolation composed of small opake ronndish or oval cells, 

 which are enlarged in the centre towards the base of the leaf, while those on its mar- 

 gin are somewhat translucent. Ventral leaves much smaller (about % as wide and % 

 as long) and stipule-like, linear-oblong, plane, attached diagonally to the stem oppo- 

 site the base of the dorsal leaves, erect-divaricate. Flowers and fruit unknown. Root- 

 lets stout, brown, simple, jointless, proceeding from the base of the ventral leaves (al- 

 ways?). (Georgia, Sullivant.) 



In E. Dorninfjenne, Bkid. (Cuba, Wkigiit), the ventral leaves are nearly as large as 

 the dorsal ones, whicli latter have a somewhat liugulate apex. Pericluetial leaves not 

 4-ranked. Calyptra conic-campanulate, covering about ^ of the capsule. Peristome 

 of a few imperfect cilice-like teeth, inserted within the mouth of the capsule. Monoj- 

 cious male ; flower eparaphysate. 



Hypnum (Harpidium) Jamesii, n. sp. — Compacte ccespitosum; caule fragil'i erecto 

 subflexuoso remote innovandi ramoso vel simplici, foliis subhomomallo-uncinatis valde 

 coucavis lanceolatis attenuato-acumiuatis basi .sensim augustatis margine integerrimis 

 (nonnullove obscure serratis), costa basi lata crassiuscula in medio sensim defluente 

 cellulis mediocriter magnis lineari-fusiformibus rectis vel subllexuosis, basilaribus infi. 

 mis multum brevioribus vix latioribus, auricularibus perpaucis subinflatis denuim 

 badiis; flores et fructus ignoti. White Mountains, New Hampshire, James. 



Having diligently compared this moss with all the species oi Harpidium known to 

 me without being able to identity it, I have reluctantly concluded to describe it as new. 

 It resembles in size and somewhat in ajipearance IlypmimJiuUdns var. turfoceum, while 

 in its subsimple stems it is much like //. revolvens ; but the former has the leaf of a totally 

 diflerent texture, serrate at the apex, etc., and the latter has a longer more circinnate 

 leaf with narrower cells (but a somewhat similar costa). H. vernicosum is a much 

 branched species with a similarljr shaped leaf, but the cells, as in H. revolvens, are 

 closer, those at the base not at all inflated, costa narrower and thinner, etc. 



A form of II. uneinatum, with leaves perfectly estriate, occurs in great abundance in 

 the Alpine region of the Wiiite Mountains. The inflorescence of this species is poly, 

 gamous. Mr. Peck has -.collected a form of this species in the Adirondack (without 



