MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 10 



In May, 1892, Mr. A. J. McClatchie collected a Ruppia 

 (No. 42) in fruit in a salt lake near Elsinore, Riverside Co., 

 Calif. His plant is remarkably slender in habit and this 

 fact, together with its early flowering may indicate varietal 

 distinction. It has not the long sheathes of R. occidentalism 

 Wats. 



A Ruppia collected in fruit by Mr. C. V. Piper, at Seattle, 

 Wash., June 20, 1889 (No. 763), appears to be referable to 

 R. rosfellata Koch, var. nana Syme, though I have not been 

 able to compare it with specimens of that plant. — J. Burtt 

 Davy. 



NEWS NOTES AND CURRENT COMMENT. 



The weekly magazine, Garden and Forest, the choicest 

 publication of its class, suspended publication with the com- 

 pletion of the tenth (1897) volume. It was conducted by 

 Prof. C. S. Sargent and all the volumes were very rich in 

 Pacific Coast articles. Its discontinuance will nowhere be 

 more regretted than on this side of the continent. 



Dr. Geo. King, F. R. S., Superintendent of the Royal 

 Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, and Director of the Botanical 

 Survey of India, has been knighted, and will henceforth be 

 known as Sir George King. 



Bulletin No. 46, of the Oregon Experiment Station at 

 Corvallis, is descriptive of the poisonous effects of a species 

 of water hemlock, Cicida vagans, Greene. The author, Mr. 

 U. P. Hedrick, estimates the number of cattle killed by this 

 plant in Oregon at about one hundred per annum. The 

 bulletin describes and illustrates the plant with great detail, 

 and discusses the species in all its bearings with regard to 

 habit, distribution, the symptoms of poisoning, remedies 

 used, and methods of eradication Closely allied plants are 

 figured and described. No chemical investigation of the 

 plant was made. — V. K. Chesnut. 



