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ing in a plane, or being reflexed as in Cyclamen. The apparent pe- 

 duncles are about an inch in length, but these are really peduncle-like 

 branches or the axes of 1-3 flowered racemes, the pedicels being only 

 a line in length, bracted at the base, thickening under the fertile flowers 

 into top-shaped receptacles. When there is more than one flower the 

 terminal one is sterile. the lower and fertile flowers consisting of a pistil 

 only. The legume is somewhat inoniliform and consists of from one to 

 four joints, each about one-fourth of an inch long, hispid, the terminal 

 one beaked. The joints disarticulate as readily as do those of Tripsa- 

 a/m,the articulations being tumid and oblique, the scars oval and white. 

 As to the Garberia I cannot add much to the published descrip- 

 tions. It is a shrubby Composite, of cinereous color, unique among 

 cis-Mississippi plants, but similar to some of the shrubby Covipositca of 

 the far west. It grows on sterile, sandy ridges, where it forms com- 

 pact bushes two to four feet in height, with numerous stems and 

 branches, its mode of branching being Ericaceous, like Azalea, etc. 

 It is quite leafy, the leaves being obovate and only about an inch in 

 length. The corymbose flowers appear in the fnll and are of a dull 

 l)urple color. It is singular that Nuttall should have called this plant 

 a Liatris. Many botanists have considered that great similarity of 

 floral structure is unquestionable evidence of generic identity, and 

 this opinion has led to some very artificial grouping of species. Prof. 

 Gray did well in separating Liatris friiticosa from the rest of that gen- 

 us. It was also highly proper to take out the species odoratissiina and 

 paniciilata, but the propriety of erecting a new genus for ihem is ques- 

 tionable. Familiarity with these plants in the field leads me to be- 

 lieve that their natural position is in the genus Carp/iephorus,\.o species 

 of which each is closely allied. Only a slight change of generic char- 

 acters would have been required to establish this very natural group. 



A. H. CURTISS. 



Botanical Notes, from Rev. E. J. Hill, Englewood, Illinois. — 

 Anemone mitltifida, DC. Found in flower August 10, 1878, on the 

 sandy beach of Grand Traverse Bay, near the landing at Torch Lake, 

 Mich. A number of specimens were gathered in various states ot' 

 flower and fruit, showing that it had not ceased blooming since the 

 time it began to flower in early summer. 



Cadramine hirsuta, L., var. sylvatica. The smooth form, like the 

 original C. Viri^i?iica described by Michaux, grows in dry, open woods 

 at Highland Park, north of Chicago. It is usually found farther south. 



Lepidiitm campcstre, L. Adventive by Ft. Wayne R. R. , at En- 

 glewood. Only a few plants found. 



Hibiscus Mflscliciitos, L. This plant, with a large and showy flow- 

 er, grows luxuriantly by Lake George, and in the adjacent swamps 

 near Whiting, Lake county, Indiana. The plants were often five feet 

 or more in height, and the flowers larger than those of the common 

 Hollyhock. I saw it in cultivation at Bear Lake, Manistee county, 

 Mich., in August, 1880. It was brought by emigrants from Ohio. As 

 the land was comparatively dry, and the height of the plnnts three 



