1879. 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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have been increased one-half at least. The 

 rosin which abounds in this tree was running 

 down in yellow streams and forming little piles 

 at the base. Perhaps when trees are numerous 

 it may possess an economic value, and so utilize 

 some of our barren lands. 



DICENTRA OR DICLYTRA. 



BY G. 



Now that the name Dicentra, expressing 

 Borkhaasen's meaning has been made and come 

 into use, we shall stick to it on the ground that 

 he meant it, as he says, to denote two-spurred, 

 and meant the Greek of it. If it had been let 

 alone, which would have been as well, we 

 might probably have given one, using Diclytra 

 as an unmeaning name, which is as good as any. 

 But it is awkward to call that an unmeaning 

 name, which the author says has a meaning, 

 gives the meaning, and gives a wrong word. 

 Bernhardi though the did only the fair thing to 

 make Borkhausen write what he should have 

 written according to his own statement. 



INTRODUCTION of the CERCIDIPH YLLUM. 



BY TH03IAS HOGG, NEW YORK. 



Permit me through your columns to thank 

 Prof. Sargent for his frank disavowal of any 

 thought of claiming for his friend, Col. Clark, 

 more than was his due. To explain how his 

 words implied anything else, I would refer him, 

 in addition to the sentence in which he alleges 

 he is '' made to claim by inference," to the be- 

 ginning of tbe next paragraph of his communi- 

 cation in your January issue, where he remarks 

 that "■ some of Col. Clark's other introductions," 

 etc. These words certainly convey the idea that 

 he had introduced what had -been previously 

 mentioned. 



Prof. Sargent apparently makes a distinction 

 between the words "introduced " and "first in- 

 troduced." I can readily understand that if a 

 plant has been at any time introduced into an- 

 other country and afterwards lost, it may be re- 

 introduced, or introduced a second time, but 

 "introduction" certainly implies "first intro- 

 duction," or else it is not an introduction at all. 

 An additional number of the same thing at a 

 later period would not be fairly expressed by the 

 word. 



It gives me more pleasure to respond, as far 

 as in* me lies, to Prof. Sargent's request for in- 

 formation concerning the Cercidiphyllum than 



having a war of words. Let me first remark on 

 its correct orthography. Referring to " Miquel's 

 Florfe Japonica?," fol. 304, I find it is spelled as 

 above, and not Cercidophyllum. It is one of the 

 largest growing deciduous trees in Japan 5 

 sparsely inhabiting, as far as has come under my 

 observation the interior mountain ranges of 

 Nippon and of the island of Yesso. In this re- 

 spect it is, with some few other examples of 

 arboreal vegetation peculiar, the straits which 

 separate the two islands, making a wide division 

 in their flora. Being at home in so cold a region 

 it would be expected to be hardy in our latitude, 

 as it has proved to be with the single specimen 

 I sent to my home. Seeing it only while jour- 

 neying through the country, and at a season of 

 the year when not in flower, I am unable to de- 

 scribe its peculiarities in that respect. Neither 

 am I aware that its timber has any special 

 value for building or in the manufacture of arti- 

 cles of household use. I concur, however, with 

 Prof. Sargent in considering it as giving good 

 promise of a deciduous tree of the first impor- 

 tance , and congratulate him on receiving a sup- 

 ply of seed of it, as hitherto it has proved a re- 

 fractory subject for other methods of propaga- 

 tion. 



EDITORIAL NOTES 



Catalpa SYRING.EFOLIA AUREA.— This and 

 not Betula syringsefolia aurea, should have 

 been the name of the rare plant noticed in Par- 

 son's collection. 



Fermentative Power of the Papaw. — 

 The true Papaw is the Carica Papaya a West 

 Indian fruit tree. That meat hung up in it 

 speedily becomes rotten has been well known 

 for ages. But now that a Dr. Wittmack, "a 

 learned German naturalist" has "discovered" 

 it, all our papers are looking on it as a wonder- 

 ful piece of news. But the fun is that they are 

 imagining that our Porcelia or Anona triloba, 

 the "Papaw" of the United States, is the plant 

 referred to, and many will be the wonderful 

 glances people w-ill take next Summer of this 

 innocent plant of " carnivorous " character ! 



Spanish Clover.— Under this name this 

 Mexican weed, which was first introduced 

 among ballast as noticed by Dr. Chas. Mohr, of 

 Alabama, is being widely sold in the South as a 

 first-class forage plant. It is to the credit of 



