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Pursh's station for Scolopendrium vulgare re-discovered — That 

 the hulies of the Syracuse Botanical Club are both zealous and fortu- 

 nate may be shown by the followiiiir note from their Secretary, Mrs. 

 M. J. Myers : 



"We have. to day (Sept. 30) found Pursh's locality for Scolopendrium 

 vulgare. Dr. Torrey in his work published in 1843, says : ''It was lirst 

 detected in iNorth America by Piirsh. who found it among- loose rocks, 

 in shady woods, near Onondaga, on the plantation of J. Geddes, Esq." 

 That gentleman was grandfather to the present owner, Mr. James 

 Ueddes. The fern w^as discovered when his father, Mr. Geo. Geddes, 

 was a lad. He saved a frond and many botanists have since that day 

 searched for the fern, l)nt it was left for us to rediscover it to-da}'. 

 Some twenty of us visited the farm to-day, and sejjarating into two 

 parties, explored thorouglily. Mrs. Barnes, our Vice-President, was 

 probably the first lady who saw it, but several others were not far 

 behind. The locality is not far from the new station for Botnjchium 

 Lunar in and Epipactis.'^ 



The most arctic tijiber — Among the specimens brought from Grin- 

 nell Land by the British Polar Expedition of 1875-6, from the Alert's 

 winter-quarters, lat. 82 deg. 27 min., is a piece of dead stem of Salix 

 ardica., a centimetre and a half in diameter, ^'on a section of which 

 nearly 40 annual circles'' of very different size have been counted. 

 This is said to be "the finest piece of indigenous timber yet met with 

 in Grinnell Land." — A. Gray. 



"Carnivorous Plants." — The epithet carnivorous seems to have 

 been first applied to plants by Wm. Bartram, in the introduction to 

 his Travels, p. xx, where in a very highly wrought description of 

 Dioneea 7nuseipula, he denominates it a "carnivorous vegetable.'' He 

 suggests the same of Sarracenia, but remains in doubt. — A. (tray. 



Glue for the Herbarium. — /V.s// glue is made on a large scale. at 

 Gloucester, Mass., and is sold both in a solid form and in a pasty 

 liquid state. It is cheap, nearly colorless, and strong, and well adapt- 

 ed for affixing specimens and tickets to the herbarium-sheets. We 

 here use it in the liquid form, and find it very handy and excellent. 

 It takes the place both of the ordinary glue, in which it saves heating, 

 and of the tragacanth paste. — A. Gray. 



An Extempore Botanic Garden.- -I doubt if any college which 

 does not boast a regular botanic garden, can show upon its own 



