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Additions to Our Native Flora. 



Geum album, Gmelin, van FLAVUM, n. van — More slender; 

 flowers smaller, petals narrower and oblong, about half the length 

 of the calyx-lobes, yellow. — In Eastern Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey, often growing with the typical form, but scarcer. 



}i Gaylussacia resinosa (Ait.), T. and G., van LEUCOCARPA, n. 

 van — Berries softer, white or cream -colon Specimens in alcohol 

 semi-translucent. — Warrior's Ridge, Huntingdon Co,, Pa., 1858. 

 East Knob, Pike Co., where, in 1886, twenty bushels of the fruit 

 were gathered and sold for almost three times the price of the 



ordinary kind. 



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Bceluneria cylindrica, Willd., van SCABRA, n. van — Erect, 

 strict, 2 feet high ; leaves thick and rigid, very rough on the up- 

 per surface, tomentose beneath, on short petioles or almost sessile 

 usually reflexed and pressed against the stem ; spikes densely 

 flowered, much longer than the petioles. 



In bogs, Crawford and Lancaster counties, Penn., and at 

 Budd^s Lake, Morris Co., N. J. Thos. C. Porter. 



Botanical Notes. 



Btilblets of Lycopodium hicidtihim. In addition to my note 

 last month, on the " bulblets " of Lycopodium hccidtdwn, Michx., 

 I may remark that they seem to be by no means so rare as might 

 have been expected from their having so generally escaped the 

 notice of botanists. The persistent stipes were readily detected 

 on specimens in the Columbia College herbarium. An esteemed 

 correspondent in West Medford, Mass., writes that she found the 

 bulblets without the slightest trouble on plants of this species 

 under cultiv^ation, and also on New Hampshire specimens col- 



lected last season. 



West 



ford December Sth, some of the *' bulblets" still remained. This 

 specimen differed in one very interesting and important respect 

 from those collected in Western New York. Sporangia as well 

 as '* bulblets *' were plentifully produced on the latter, and the 

 empty valves of several successive years were conspicuously per- 

 sistent. In the West Medford plant not a single sporangium of 

 this or any previous season was discoverable. In other words, 

 the auxiliary reproductive process seemed in this particular in- 



