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specimens of this plant which has been in flower dining the past 

 month; and last year I had good opportunity for studying the legumes. 

 The plant well deserves its name of calycosa as tlie. calyx is very re- 

 markable. Its lobes become somewhat enlarged in fruit, and nearly 

 enclose the small legume, so that only the tips of the pod and the 

 long curved style are exserted. The legume itself is about 4 lines 

 long by 2 lines broad ; the style is also about 4 lines long. Seeds 

 1-4, generally 2 ; base of stem woody. Stem 2-3 feet high, much 

 branched ; plant turns black in drying. I notice that the calyx is 

 often 5-parted. A friend who lives in the region where this Baptisia 

 grows, tells me that soon after the flowering season the plants are at- 

 tacked by worms or caterpillars, which eat them greedily. Being un- 

 expectedly obliged to remain in St. Augustine this summer, I expect 

 to be able to include fine specimens of this plant in flower and fruit 

 in my cheap sets for sale. — Mary C. Reynolds, St. Augustine, Fla. 



The Collections of Darlington and Townsend. — It may 

 possibly interest the old friends of the late Dr. Wm. Darlington and 

 David Townsend, of West Chester, Pa , that the herbariums left by 

 these gentlemen are now in the museum of the State Normal School 

 of this place. The curators of the institution are having the plants 

 carefully poisoned and glued down, together with the original labels 

 mostly in the handwriting of these eminent botanists. Those espec- 

 ially left by Mr. Townsend are splendidly preserved, and indeed but 

 few in the entire collection have been injured by insects. The typi- 

 cal local flora in the good old Doctor's herbarium, from which his 

 Flora Cestrica was written, is interesting from the fact that the many 

 forms of some changeable species are largely represented.'' — Josiah 

 Hoopes. 



Phvsalis grandiflora. — In the month of June, 1878, I found 

 a patch of Physalis grainiiflora, growing in an old pasture lot, along 

 the lowlands near the mouth of the Au Sable river. Iosco Co., Mich. 



A specimen collected from this locality by myse f is now in the 

 herbarium of Dr. J. T. Rothrock, West Chester, Pa. 



I believe this is the most southern limit at which this plant has 

 been known to occur. At the date above mentioned it had never 

 been reported south of the shores of Lake Superior. — ;C. li. Coch 

 ran, West Chester, Fa. 



Michigan Lake ShOre Plants and Notes on Populus p.al- 

 samifera, var. candicans. — The following list, together with the one 

 published in the July Gazette, gives a somewhat general catalogue of 

 the more distinctive flora of the sand dunes and beaches in the vi 

 cinity of South Haven, Mich.: 



Nasturtium palustre, D.C , with the typical oblong pods. One 

 plant was found on a dry. clay plot near the lake. Arabis Canadensis, 

 L., common on high bluffs. Cakile Americana, Nutl. , is not generally 

 distributed along the beach. Of 100 average p ds of this plant which 

 I examined, only 47 had the seeds developed in both cells. Silene 



