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detected in the phloem. It will be observed we have illustrations here 

 of the three tissue systems; of all the principal sorts of tissues, except 

 sclerenchyma. i. e., parenchymatous, fibrous, laticiferous, sieve, and 

 tracheary tissues ; with several well marked varieties of the first and 

 second. The only prominent varieties not included are cork, bast, 

 and tracheides, modifications respectively of parenchymatous, fibrous, 

 and tracheary tissues. It would probably be difficult to select any one 

 common example that more admirably illustrates tissues and tissue 

 elements, and, withal, so simply constructed for histological study. — 

 J. C. Arthur, University of Wisconsin. 



Habenaria Garberi, n. sp. — Stem erect, a foot or more high, 

 bearing at the base i to 2 globular tubers y^ to i inch in diameter, 

 leafy ; leaves oblong-lanceolate; spikes 3 to 6 inches long, loosely ( r 

 densely flowered; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, about ls 1 ng as the 

 ovary; flowers greenish-yellow ; exterior perigonial divisions broadly 

 ovate, the lateral ones concave and reflexed ; the two interior ones erect 

 and 2-parted, the anterior divisi' n involute-filiform and truncate, the 

 longer posterior one cuneate ; lips larger than the perigone, entire, 

 linear from a broad base, obtuse; spur filiform, equalling or exceeding 

 the ovary in length, 6-9 lines. 



Collected in 1878, in wet or damp hummocks, around Manatee, 

 S. Florida, by that indefatigable and zealous botanist. Dr. A. P. 

 Garber, for whom it is named. It blooms in the fall or winter. The 

 flowers exhale a pleasant, verbena-like odor. It is No. 3150! Dr. 

 G.'s. Florida collections, — Thos. C. Porter. 



Notes from Providence, R. I. — In a recent visit to Narragan- 

 sett Pier, R. I., I found the species S lidago lanceolata, L. and S. 

 tenuifolia, Pursh thronged with the lovely moth Dciopcia heUa. One 

 could easily have collected enough to supply exchanges for years. It 

 was not to be seen about S. sempervirens which grew not far off 



I have noticed a restricted limitation of Aster Novce Anglicc. L. 

 It is not found in the immediate vicinity of our city, but about six 

 miles north bf^comes very abundant on the road-sides and continues so 

 in a belt to the west. One as suddenly passes out of its range. I 

 think it grows best in the lime=;tone region about here, where it is 

 truly magnificent. 



Mr. J. L. Bennett reports Ambrosia trifida L. as having appeared 

 in our city. It is curious that it has not done so before, as at Hart- 

 ford, ninety miles away, it is very common and might have been 

 expected to follow the railway. But then while Cic/iorium Iiitybus is a 

 nuisance about Boston, it is very infrequent here; its nearest 

 approach, in quantit;^', is, perhaps, at Canton. 



Brown University has received from the Trustees of the late Col. 

 Olney $10,000, the income to be used for the increase of his herbarium 

 and botanical library. A further sum of $25,000 is left to the college 

 for a professorship of Natural History, "one of the duties of the 

 professor being to lecture on Botany." This sum is not yet acquired. 



