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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 



Peraphyllum ramosissimum, Nutt., is figured in Curtis' 

 Botanical Magazine for June, 1895. 7420. Sir Joseph Hooker 

 appends the following note to his description: '■'■ Peraphyl- 

 lum ramosissimum seems to have a very interrupted distri- 

 bution, being nowhere very common, but occupying a wide 

 area, from the Blue Mountains in Oregon to Southwestern 

 Colorado, Southern Utah and California. It has been grown 

 in the Arboretum of Kew for upwards of twenty years, where 

 it forms a shrub about three feet high, but was never ob- 

 served to flower till May, 1894. It is probably one of Dr. 

 Asa Gray's seed contributions to the Royal Gardens." An 

 anonymous writer in the Kew BulleUn for June and July 

 alludes to the fact that the season of 1894 was one to be re- 

 membered by English horticulturists for the number of plants 

 which flowered at Kew for the first time in consequence of 

 the unusual amount of sunshine during the previous summer 

 a nd autumn. 



The death of Professor Hellriegel at the age of sixty-four 

 is announced. He was the discoverer of the fact that legu- 

 minous plants are capable of absorbing free nitrogen from 

 the air through the agency of micro-organisms existing in 

 the nodules on their roots. 



