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known to v;iry, one might regard it as distinct species, but I have 

 what I call "broods" of this species from different parts of the 

 country, and as they all flowered one after another, I had to conclude 

 L. Gniyi to be but one of them. It does not belong to the erect 

 flowering species as believed by Mr. Watson, but droops till the 

 flower begins to fade, just as L. Canadcnse does. It is interesting 

 however as being the first of my "broods" to flower. It was open 

 about the first of June, 'f he New Jersey brood was not open till ten 

 days after, and a very beautiful and brightly colored brood from Mis- 

 sissippi not till twenty days after L. Grayi. 



By the way, this matter of comparative flowering often leads to er- 

 roneous conclusions. Two kinds may, under equal circumstances, 

 have one flower a Iq^n days after the other, but it may be that as one 

 is about to go out of flower the weather becomes cool and cloudy and 

 the slightly late one is retarded. What would have been days be- 

 comes weeks ot'difference. 



Again my "Mississippi brood" were all raised by offsets from one 

 original bulb, and have so far all opened about the same day. But this 

 year one bulb took a notion to flower four days before any of the oth 

 ers, all growing besice it. It teaches that variations from supposed 

 normal types must not always be necessarily from seeds. "Bud var- 

 iations," as Dr. Masters calls them, are also potent in originating dis- 

 tinct characters. — Thomas Meehan. 



A New Station for Lysimaeliia tliyrsiHora, L.— May 17, 



1881, while on a plant-hunting tour among some small ponds within 

 out city limits, I was so lucky as to find Lysimachia thyrsifloni, L. , and 

 in bloom. It grew along the border of a small pond, among sedges. 

 On consulting our manuals, I find all give this species a more north- 

 ern habitat than tiiis; and in Mr. H. N. Patterson's catalogue of Illi- 

 nois plants It is reported from "Cass Co. and northward," while in 

 the catalogue of Indiana plants, published by the editors of the Ga- 

 zette and Prof. C. R. Barnes, it is credited from "Marion and 

 Lake;" either of these localities is more than one hundred miles 

 northward. There were a goodly number of plants, and all appeared 

 as if among their natural surroundings and doing well. The ])ond is 

 one of a series into which the Wabash river flows during times of 

 high water. May it not be that by the aid of the annual freshets this 

 northerner is gradually working its way southward, as Carcx rctrorsa, 

 Schvv., also appears to have done?— J. Schneck, Mt. Canncl, III. 



Marine Alii-;v of New Ensrland and Adjacent Coasts, by 



AV. G. Farlow, M. D. (Reprinted from report of U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission for 1879). -This report of Professor Farlow occupies 210 pages, 

 to which are added 15 plates, illustrating the tyjies of structure and 

 fructification. The genera and s{)ccies are all very carefully described, 

 the range indicated, the localities of the rarer kinds mentioned, and 

 often some critical or interesting note added. The author has dis- 

 tributed the Marine Algjc into four orders, Cryptophycccc, Zoosporea, 



