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Brachychmta eordata, T. & G., SoUdago rigida, L., 8. nemoralis. Ail., SilpMum trifolia- 

 tum, L., Echinacea purpurea, Moench, Budberkia laciniata, L., Lepachys j)iiiiiata,'\\& G., 

 Ilelianthiis mollis. Lam., II. rigidus, Desf., //. microcephalus, T. & G., II. Iiir.satus, Raf., 

 Goreo2)sis tripteris, L., Dysodia chrysu/Uheiiwides, Lag., StylosaiUhes elutior, Swartz, 

 Desmodium mtuiidifoliuni, DC, Lespedeza procumbeiis, Mx., Teijhro^ia Virginiana, Pers., 

 Pli(i>!eolut< helvolus, L., Eryngivni ynccivfnliumi, Michx., etc. Enough has been given 

 to show the general nature of the species. We were tlierj in tliat most unfortunate 

 time, tl\at could be called the resting season, Avhen all the spring and early summer 

 flowers have disappeared and the fall flowers have not yet begun to show their brilliant 

 blossoms. All along over the Knobs, on the way to the Barrens, we encountered any 

 quantity of (Jroion monitnthogyiiitiii, Michx., in beautiful condition for specimens. 

 Dysodid was hardly absent from the roadside for thirty miles, and its fragrance came to 

 be one of the accompaniments of the landscape. It is to be hoped that a trip later in 

 the fall will bring back fresh specimens of many more desirable species. — J. M. C. 



Zantuoxyi,um Amekicanum, Mill. — A few daj'S since while hurrying through the 

 woods my attention was called to a small cluster of trees bearing bright red berries, to 

 all appearances. On nearing it I found it to be Zantho.vylum, or Prickly Ash, and 

 noticed at once the air was tilled with a deligiitful fragrance as of fresh lemons. By a 

 little pressure of the pods, which I found upon closer examination to have an oily look 

 and to vary in color from a greeai.ih yellow to a bright red at oiaturity, I soon found my 

 fingers covered with an oil so volatile that it was hardly expressed until it was gone. 

 However, I had found the source of the pleasant odors that were filling the air. My 

 curiosity led me one step further, and that was to taste the fruit. I knew it was medi- 

 cinal, but I was hardly jjrepared for the revelations of the next moment, for as I began 

 to chew, it began to take good hold upon my tongue, mouth and lips, and such a burn* 

 ing drj'uess as I had for the next half hour I have never before known. Water only 

 seemed to add fuel to the fiame which thus carried its stimulating eflects further down. 

 As a result of this experimental kn-wledge I would heartily approve of the name 

 "Tootliache-tree," for he who dares to chew the green fruit will soon have little time to 

 think of his previous pains. These bushes with their brilliant fruit, sightly toliage 

 and exquisite fragrance, certainly invite cultivation. — A. H. Y. 



Cuuious DissEMiNaTiON. — For two years I was baifled in my efibrts to gather seed 

 of the beautiful Leucocrinnvi Diontamim, abundant in Sierra Valley, but rare elsewhere 

 in California. During the first season I found how oddly the pericarp remained down 

 in the ground, though the large, creamy white flower was exserted two or three inches 

 above it, but not until too late to save seed at the close of the second season did I dis- 

 cover how the shining black seeds were spirited away. 



The LeuGocrinuin is a Liliaceous plant of the fibrous-rooted kind, and acaulescent. 

 Its grass-like leaves, % inch wide by 4 to (5 long, rise from a caudex sessile upon the 

 roots, an inch or more below the surface of the ground. As inferred, the pericarp is 

 short stipitate, and matures its seed at a locality in the ground, to be sure, but quite un- 

 favorable for successful rooting, since, when the pericarp bursts, the seeds are dis- 

 charged upon a spot already occupied by the perennial parent plant; that is, it would 

 seet/i that they are thus left to fate, but when the spot is searched after the plant ripens 

 and its leaves are gone not a seed remains in place. They are carried aicay by the in- 

 curred bases of the withered leaves, and blown icith them by the wind omr the plain. — 

 J. G. Lemmon. 



Plants FOR Sale. — Mr. Geo. D. Butler, of Almont, Iowa, has several sets of south- 

 western plants to sell, containing veiy rare species, as for instance, Selenia aurea, 

 Nutt., Stellar/a JVuttallii, T. ct G., 2'ephrosia onohryclioides, Nutt., Acacia hirta, Nutt., 

 Rosa foliolosa, Nutt., Gaura Sinuuta, Nutt., Trepocarpus jEthus(K,, Nutt., Apium Popei, 



