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saw a humming-bird on the summit ! Bees and spiders were com- 

 mon. It is odd to see Spircea salicifolia blooming among the 

 alpines, like Vaccinhim Vitis-Idcea, and iiligmosum My last 

 ascent of this fine mountain was August lo, 1882, three days 

 later in the season than my climb of this year. The flowers I 

 found then were this year almost all gone to seed. This speaks 

 volumes for the precocity of 1889. 



At the limit of trees, or just below the dwarf forest rather, 

 Veratnim viride grows vigorously. Rain, wind and cold, are a 

 drawback to collecting. I had only a portfolio ; it is my fixed 

 opinion that on mountain tops a tin box is better. " 



Sugar Hill, N. II., August 20. 



W. Whitman Bailey, 



Botanical Notes. 



Florida Lichens. — I have lately received from Dr. W. Nylan- 

 der his work on " Lichenes Insularum Gimieefititim," and in the 

 " Observationes " attached thereto, he has named and described 

 six new species of Lichens found by me in Florida. They are 

 GrapJiis siibparilis, Graphis interversa, Graphis turbidenta, Pla- 



xph 



bpunctifc 



rmis. These, with the five described 

 in the April number of the BULLETIN, and the additions made 

 by me of already known Florida species, will swell the " Lichen 

 Flora of Florida" published by Eckfeldt & Calkins in 1887 to 

 over four hundred species. I withhold notes upon them for the 

 present, as I am making a special study of the subject with a sub- 

 sequent contribution in view. W. W. CalkiNS. 



Aphyllon fasciculahcm. Mr. Anderson in his note on Aphyl- 

 lon fascicnlatum, in the August number of the BULLETIN, speaks 

 of its being parasitic on Artemisia. My experience has been 



It is found in small quantities not far from the shore of 

 Lake Michigan, at a locality in northern Indiana, a k\v miles 

 from Chicago. A gentleman who had collected Aphyllon fasci- 

 culatiim there assured the writer that it was parasitic on Artemisia, 

 but a careful search failed to reveal it in the locality where he had 

 found it. Later it was found growing In the sand with nothing 

 else near except Arctostaphylos Uva ursi, on which It was possi- 



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