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Lithospennwn hirium, Lehni. , is abundant on sand bluffs. Its 

 showy yellow flowers are very fragrant. It might be a valuable ac- 

 quisition to our gardens. Shcphcrdia Canadensis, Nutt., is abundant. 

 Salix vi/fima/is, L., occurs abundantly on a springy, clay bank near 

 the harbor. S. discolor, Muhl., and ^. rostrata, Rich., grow to a 

 good size m clean sand. Populus halsamifera. L. , var. candicans is na- 

 tive north of the harbor. This clump of low, stunted trees, is the 

 remnant of a narrow belt about a mile in length which contained 

 scattering specimens when the first settlements were made here thirty 

 years ago. 



Junipcriis coffwiunis, L. , and /. Virginiana, L. , are common ; 

 and in the bluffs under evergreens, T/iitJa occidentalis, L., and Tax- 

 us baccata I.. , var. Canadensis, Gray. 



/uncus Balticns, VVilld., is abundant on the beach. Calamagros- 

 tis longifolia. Hook., and Caichrus tribuloides, L., are uncommon. 

 Aspidiuni ma>ginale, Swartz., occurs on the bluffs. Specimens of 

 most of the above are on hand for exchanges.— L. H. Bailey, jr., 

 South Haven, Mich. 



Fungi on Anemone nemorosa.— I have found on living plants 

 of Anemone nemorosa ; Synch it rium Anemones, .-Ecidium Anemones, 

 yE. Ranunculacearum, Fticcinia Anemones, Peronospora pygnnm, 

 and Urocystes pompholigodes. I have sometimes found three of these 

 on the same leaf. Is there any other plant that has an equal num- 

 ber of parasitic fungi ?—E. W. H., Decorah, Iowa. 



La Phytographie, by Alph. DeCandolle, 8 vo., 48 pp.— This 

 is a work we would like to see translated into English for the benefit 

 of our own botanists. Coming as it does from the most eminent 

 European auihority, from one whose whole life has been devoted to 

 the description of plants, it is likely to become the authority upon 

 Phytography, or the art of describing plants considered from almost 

 every point of view. At first sight the subject appears to have to do 

 with the form of botanical works alone, but the art of describing is 

 based on that of observing, comparing and classifying. Phytography 

 with respect to facts is a sort of garment, which it is necessary to 

 knovy how to modify to suit the dimensions of an individual increas- 

 ing in stature. Two old works have exerted a powerful influence 

 on botanical writings, namely, the PJiilosophia botanica of Linnceus, 

 and the Theorie elcmentaire de la botanicjue of Augustine Pyramiifi 

 DeCandolle. These works are separated from each other by more 

 than sixty years, and now, again, after the lapse of more than sixty 

 years, Alp'\ DeCandolle publishes this present work, in which are 

 considered m.^ny questions that the progress of the science has sug- 

 gested. The c'rection of the Prodromus and of the Monographice 

 Phanerogamartim >as peculiarly fitted the author for the work in 

 hand, and he can sp ^ak upon this subject from a wider experience, 

 probably, than any ot> er botanist. The great prominence the author 

 gives to works on dcscri^ tive botany, he says, is due to their neces. 



