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for active woik in the field, and appointing an executive committee to 

 perfect all arrangements, they determined upon weekly excursions near 

 and far, Avith the hope of soon collecting the flora of the county. These 

 weekly excursions have been faithfully kept up, every Saturday, when 

 the weather permitted, finding them somewhere in search of plants. At 

 the present writing they have made 18 such excursions and have discovered 

 not only new sta'ions for rare species, but a genus new to our Atlantic 

 border. They seem to abound especially in Orchideous plants and we may 

 hope for much good work yet to be done. They state their objects to be 

 mutual instruction in the science of Botany, and to induce women, particu 

 larly, to occupy themselves in a way both improving and pleasant. They 

 have now gone so far as to have a regular constitution and by-laws and are 

 electing honorary and corresponding members. They would invite cor- 

 respondence with botanists or other clubs upon subjects of mutual interest. 

 Their officers are Mrs. S. M. Rust, President; Mrs. Chas. Barnes, Vice- 

 President; Mrs. K. J. Myers, Secretary; and Mrs. Annie Fairbanks, 

 Treasurer. 



A 5-MEROUS Lily. — Seeing a note in the Gazette about 4-merous 

 Lilium Philadelphicum reminds me of the 5-merous one I found last week 

 in Litchfield county. Conn. It had 5 sepals, 5 petals, 10 stamens and a 

 5-parted pistil. I secured the bulb but I doubt if it does the like again- 

 It was a fine specimen. — E. S. Miller. 



Duplicate Corolla of Campanula. — In the case of a double corolla 

 of a garden Campanula, mentioned in the Gazette, p. 200, were the lobes 

 of the two corollas opposed to or alternate with each other? If the latter 

 (which is the common case)why is it said to be a case of chorisis? Then 

 what is Campanula media, L? We never heard or read of such a Linnsean 

 species. Probably Campanula Medium, L. was meant. This the old 

 herbalists called Medium, and so Linnaeus adopted this name for the species, 

 not as an adjective, but as a proper name. — A. Gray. 



White berried Mitchella repens. — Dr. Gray will f^id an account 

 of the discovery of a white Partridge Berry m the Proceedings of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, for 1878, page 383, with some 

 further observations on its strictly dioecious character. It appears by that 

 note that the plant was full of white berries when found three years before, 

 but failed to produce berries under culture through removal from its 

 perfectly polleniferous neighbors. — * 



