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Scytonema mircibile ( Dill w. ) Bornet, as a name, replaces the 

 Scylonema figuratum of Boruet and Flahault's monograph. 

 It has been found in the Eastern United States by Farlow. 

 It grows in pannose layers upon the " Pillars of Hercules," 

 in South Cheyenne Canon near Manitou, Colorado. 



NostoG Linckia (Roth) Bornet occurs in Lake Saltonstall, 

 near New Haven, Conn. It forms thickish sheets of a pale 

 green color and very much crumpled. Occasionally some 

 trace of its original globular shape is preserved and it forms 

 large imperfect bladders several inches in diameter. 



Schizothrix fasciciilata (Naeg.) Gomont was detected by 

 M. Gomont in material sent him by the writer. The speci- 

 mens were obtained at Twin Lakes, near Salisbury, Conn. 

 It was mixed with Rivularia Biasolettiana Menegh. 



Hydrocoleum lyngbyaceum Kuetz var. A. Gomont, was very 

 abundant upon the fronds of Ascophyllum nodosum in the 

 harbor at Woods Hole, Mass. during the summer of 1894. 

 It was first found by Mr. Charles P. Nott. 



Lyngbya cerugineo-coerulea (Kuetz.) A. Gomont, found 

 thus far only in France and Germany, was detected by M. 

 Gomont in specimens sent him from Tom Mi, Salisbury, 

 Conn. 



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Local Uses op Plants. — A resident of the Redwood 

 region of Sonoma Co., Cal., recently pointed out to me 

 Achillea Millefolium, at Fort Ross, stating that the leaves 

 when steeped in hot water and applied to a cut or other new 

 wound, had a remarkable healing effect. Rliamnus Califor- 

 nica has been reported more than once as an old Indian rem- 

 edy of great efficacy in rheumatic affections: it is possible 

 that E. Californica and R. Purshiana may have been con- 

 fused in the minds of those volunteering this information. 



