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Fulton ; in Pulaski county, east of Little Rock ; in Pronie, Monroe 

 and St. Francis counties, on the Memphis Railroad ; in Conway, 

 Crawford and Sebastian counties, on the Ft. Smith Railroad. It 

 also occurs in Jefferson County, near Pine Bluffs ; in Woodruff 

 county, near Augusta, and about the headwaters of the Illinois River, 

 north of Boston Mountains, in Washington county, northwest Ar- 

 kansas. 



Nymphaa ordorata grows in Saline, Jefferson and Hempstead 

 counties, also with the former species in Washington county. 



Nuphar advena is found so generally distributed through the 

 State where I have been, I will not enumerate the localities. — F. W. 

 Harvey, Ark. Ind. Univ., E\iyetievUle, Ark. 



Calluna vulgaris in Nantucket, Mass. — This species has 

 been found in the station indicated, and the following note from a 

 correspondent of Mrs. Owen, of Springfield, will describe the sur- 

 roundings : 



The soil around the Calluna vulgaris seemed to be quite good; 

 that is, not so sandy as most of our soil is, though it was not near any 

 pond, and very little, if any, lower than the ground in the vicinity. 

 It was, perhaps, a mile from the beach, "as the crow flies," and not 

 much more than a quarter of a mile from a human habitation. At 

 first we thought there were several plants, but traced their connection 

 «ith each ether by pushing away a little of the soil, underneath 

 which was a stalk an inch and a half or two inches in circumference. 

 A bushel measure would nearly if not quite cover the whole. In the 

 center of the plants the stalks appeared dead, being without foliage or 

 blossoms, while on the outside the stalks were covered with foliage 

 and dried blossoms mostly, with here and there a fresh one, and new 

 foliage was springing from the ground among the dead stalks. This 

 was the condition of the plant Oct. 14, 1880. — L. S. Riddell. 



Characeae of America by Timotliy E. Allen, A. M., M. D., 

 with colored illustrations from the original drawings by the author. 

 Parts I and 2. S. R. Cassino, Boston — The publication of this work 

 was begun some time ago by Dr. Allen and a part or two being issued 

 was discontinued. It has again been taken up by Cassino, who is 

 gaining such an enviable reputation in the publication of scientific 

 work, and is to be published in the same ornate way as the Ferns of 

 North America. Each part consists of three colored plates and eight 

 pages of text In the first two parts received the six plates illustrated 

 the following species, Chara Gymnopus, var. clegans, C. crinita, var. 

 Americana, C. coronata, var. Schweinitzii, Nitdla flcxilis, vars, nidifica 

 and crassa, and IV. tenuissima. 



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 price. It is handsome enough to cost a round sum but we will guar- 

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