24 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



first publication of this species, in the Western Horticultural Review, is 

 1853. The dissepiment (p. 3, 1. 22.) of C. bignotiioides is flatter 

 (or more compressed) but not "flat" as is stated. 



Correction. —On page 12 in the last Gazette, for "coniferous" 

 read "cruciferous." 



When in some emergency an editor weakly yields to the temptation 

 of «1oing some careless "stuffing" he is "ery apt to repent it at his 

 leisure. Fortunate is he if his patrons are both keen enough and 

 friendly enough promptly to call his attention to the fact and thus pre- 

 vent a repetition of the offence. The note reprinted from the Inde- 

 pendent in the last Gazette has called forth such an inundation of re- 

 bukes and remonstrances as to completely counteract any tendency to 

 "stuff^' in the future. We wish to print a part of one of the best of 

 these, from a botanist of high rank, both for our own satis- 

 faction and the benefit of our patrons : 



' * The Polypodium vulgare is certainly not our form of the species, 

 and is very probably not jP. r'/z/i^-^f/r^' at all." But in the story about 

 Pringlea the mistakes are very amusing. The statement is :-"One 

 of these {Pringlea antiscorbutica) is not only special to the Island, but 

 it is distinct from any known coniferous plant in having powdery pol- 

 len and no petals." 



v4// coniferous plants have "powdery pollen and no petals." Prin- 

 glea is not special to the Island, but occurs on three other groups or 

 islands. It is not coniferous, but is cruciferous. (This mistake was 

 not the fault of the writer in the Independent. — Ed.) It has petals 

 sometimes, "1-4, clawed, rosy-tipped, inconspicuous, caducous." 



It differs from the crucifers not in having powdery pollen, for all 

 crucifers have powdery pollen, but in that the pollen is produced in 

 greater abundance, and in that the grains are "smaller, and perfectly 

 spherical, instead of ellipsoid with three furrows." 



Sir Joseph Hooker thinks the plant is anemophilous, while the rest 

 of the order is said to be entomophilous. Pringlea though closely re- 

 lated to Cochlearia, has more the habit (and the use) of a cabbage, and 

 as it grows on islands where winged insects are either scarce or want- 

 ing, it is not strange that it should be wind-fertilized." 



The Botanical Index. — This neat quarterly, published by L. B. 

 Case, Richmond, Ind,, still continues to be full of interest, especially 

 to the horticulturist. The press-work and designs are fine, and in the 

 last number a brief summary of botanical progress for the past year, 

 evidently prepared with great labor, is of interest to every botanist. 



