2o8 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



Veratrum Woodii again. — I have discovered another locality for 

 this rare plant, being the rocky banks of Long Creek, ("Stony Hollow"), 

 in Desbroines Co., Iowa, about 8 miles north of Burlington. I have 

 but one specimen and a close search did not reveal any other. — 



H. N. Patterson. 



ScuTiA FERREA, Brongn., more properly named Condalia ferrea by 

 Grisebach, was collected in Florida, perhaps for the first time, by Dr. 

 A. P. Garber, in May and July, 1877, in flower, and later sparingly in 

 fruit. The plant which has passed for this in Chapman's Flora and in 

 several collections, which was collected on Key West long ago by 

 Blodgett and recently by Dr. Palmer, also by Dr. Garber at Miami, 

 etc., is 



Revnosia latifolia, Griseb. Cat. Cub. 33, a peculiar genus, charac- 

 terized by a very thin-shelled baccate drupe, filled by a large seed with 

 ruminated albumen. As this plant inhabits the Bahamas and Danish 

 Islands as well as Cuba and Florida, it is probable that it has some earlier 

 names. Without much doubt it is Rhamnus Icevigatus of Vahl's Symbolas 

 {Ceanothus IcBvigatiis. DC), from St. Croix. West. Yet Baron Eggers, 

 in his Flora of St. Croix and the Virgin Islands, and in his paper on the 

 genus Reynosia, does not adduce this synonym, nor indeed does he other- 

 wise dispose of it. This genus is an interesting addition to our flora, which 

 we have had in hand for a long time without knowing it. — A. Gray. 



Agaricus Morgani, Peck. I am this season finding elegant specimens 

 of this remarkable Agaric, which was described in the March number 

 of the Botanical Gazette. One plant measures 11 inches across the 

 pileus and is 8^ inches high; the bulbous base of the stipe is 2 inches ijj 

 diameter tapering upward to one inch; the heavy movable ring is situated 

 above the middle of the stipe. It is a much heavier and stouter plant than 

 A. procerus. Scop., though not as tall. It is stouter than any of the Amanitas 

 and with a much greater expanse of pileus. It reminds me somewhat 

 of A. maxmus, Fr. , though with a much longer stipe and a more regular 

 pileus. I am disposed to claim that it is the largest Agaric in the world. 

 The remarkable thing about the plant, however, and the feature by which 

 it differs from all other Agarics and by which it is readily recognized is its 



