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specimens from Cheyenne Canon, five miles below Colorado Springs, 

 and has also found a few specimens in Glen Eyrie. She also reports 

 that it is said to be abundant in Bear Creek Canon. It is still I think 

 remarkable that this plant was not collected by any of the early ex- 

 plorers of this district, and it is probable that it is one of those 

 cases where the apjiearance of man changes circumstances in favor of 

 the rapid spread of plants which had little show in the unaided strug- 

 gle for life in wild nature. 



I may further remark that the width of the flowers sent me by 

 my correspondent favors Mr. Jones' suggestion that Aquikgta chry- 

 santha and A. cceri/ka are not specifically distinct. — Thomas Mee- 



HAN. 



Note —Since I sent you my note on the yellow Atjuikgia at Col- 

 orado Springs, my correspondent writes that she has found two cases 

 of pale blue flowers on the same plants as the yellow ones. I am 

 glad to render this ad litional testimony to the accuracy of Mr. Jones' 

 observations. The flowers however seem to be yellow forms ot Aqui- 

 legia ccaritlca, and not to have the short sepals and petals in compari- 

 son with the spurs, which A. chrysantha has. — T. M. 



Hieracium aurailtilllll.— This foreign plant is not described 

 in our botanical text books, and I judge is not generally known in 

 this country. It is quite common here and is fast becoming a trouble- 

 some weed — W. H. Lennon, Brockport, N. Y. 



Aplectrum hycmalP. — Among a large number of specimens 

 of tiiis plant, collected a itw weeks ago, at least one third had flower.s 

 of a gircnish-yelloTo, without the slighest trace of brown or purple, not 

 even a speck on the lip. Is this variation common ? The botanies 

 do not mention it. — W. H. L. 



Some New York Ferns.— At the village of Hoiie>y, about 



twenty miles west of Rochester, N. Y., the Rochester and Niagara 

 Falls R. R. crosses a ravine u]) which, within a distance of less than 

 two miles, are found the following ferns : 



Polxpodiiim vulgare, Adiatitutn pedaium, Aspleniuvi Trichomancs, 

 A. cbcncimi, A. augitstifoliitm, A. t/iclypteroides, A. Eilix-fffmina, Camp- 

 tosorus rhizophylliis, Plwgopteris hcxagonoptera, F. Dryoptcris, Aspidium 

 N'ovcboraccnse, A. Thclypteris, A. fristatiim, A. cristatum, var. Clintoni- 

 anuin, A. Goldianum, A. marginalc, A. spinuhsiim, A. acrostic/ioides, 

 Cystoptcris fragi/is, C. Indbiffra, Onoclca s<'>isiHlis, O. Stn/f/iioptcris, 

 Jbicksonia pilositiscula, Osimnida rcgahs, O. Claytoniana, O. cinnamoiuca, 

 Boirychitim tcrnatum, B. Virgiuiamim, B. matricariacfoUum, B. lamco- 

 Iatim.—\\\ H. L. 



Botanical Handbooks For Tourists.— An excellent list of 



this kind has been published by Prof. G. L. Goodale in No. 9 of the 

 Bibliographical Contributions fr(mT the Library of Harvard University. 

 We orint it here as we have so often received letters asking just the 



