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on ripening, with a marked flavor of the raspberry and some 

 of the acidity of the blackberry ; it is known as the " black- 

 cap." Bubus vitifolius grows with it. J. Buktt Davy. 



New locality-becoeds for the Bay Kegion: — Datura 

 Tatida, Linn. Sandy river-deposits near Kussian Eiver 

 Station and Guerneville, Sonoma Co., collected July 21, 1896, 

 by the writer; also at Carmel Mission, Monterey, outside 

 the Manual limits, August, 1896, Willis L. Jex)Son. 



Mr. James Watson of Guerneville reports, that a small 

 grove of Pinus Lamhertiana, the Great Sugar-Pine, occurs 

 near the head of Austin creek, Sonoma Co. 



J. BuRTT Davy. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 



MoNS. E. RozE has been experimenting upon the expansion 

 of the blossoms of (Enothera siiaveolens, with the object of 

 discovering the causes producing and effects resulting from 

 the well-known sudden expansion of the corolla and reflection 

 of the sepals. M. Roze concludes that the cause of the 

 sadden expansion of the buds is due to moisture, either 

 liquid or in the form of vapor, operating in the evening with 

 a force proportionate to the amount of heat to which the 

 plant was exposed during the preceding day. The results of 

 his investigatioDS are published in the Bulletin de la Societe 

 Botanique de France. 



Dr. N. L. Britton has been appointed Director of the 

 newly founded New York Botanical Garden which has been 

 endowed with $250,000 by a number of wealthy New York 

 gentlemen and others. The endowment having been secured, 

 the city of New York has set aside 250 acres of land in 

 Bronx Park for the Garden and is under agreement to con- 

 tribute $500,000 for the erection of buildings for Herbarium, 

 Museum and other purposes. The officers for 1896 are : 



