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what wavy margins, and they are wide and overlapping, making 

 an unusually full flower with a spread of about four and one half 

 inches. The plant is day-blooming, very floriferous, and an ex- 

 cellent summer-flowering sort. 



In obtaining the seedling that is being propagated under the 

 name Soudan Daylily, the Hemerocallis flava (Lemon Daylily) 

 was hybridized with H. aurantiaca and a selection in this progeny 

 was then crossed with the Luteola Daylily, which is itself sup- 

 posed to be a hybrid between H. Thunbergii and either H. auran- 

 tiaca or H. aurantiaca major. The progeny of this diverse par- 

 entage had flowers of various shades of yellow and orange color- 

 ing, with, in a few cases, tinges of fulvous. Two of this particu- 

 lar series of hybrids have already been named the Vesta Daylily 

 and the Wau-Bun Daylily. 



The Soudan Daylily is the sixth of the various new hybrid 

 seedlings developed at The New York Botanical Garden that have 

 now been described and illustrated in the pages of this Journal. 

 Those already so described are Cinnabar, Mikado, Vesta, Wau- 

 Bun (issue of Feb., 1931) and Bijou (issue of Jan., 1932). Sev- 

 eral other seedlings of special merit are being propagated for pos- 

 sible distribution later. 



A. B. Stout. 



COLLECTING INSECTS IN HERBARIA 1 



At first thought an herbarium might seem to be a poor place 

 to collect insects ; still, many insects find dried plants suitable for 

 food — so much so that all modern herbarium specimens are treated 

 with corrosive sublimate to prevent their destruction by insects 

 or by moulds. 



There are also several groups of insects which, feeding as 

 grubs or caterpillars in the fruits at the time the plants are 

 picked, may often be found in herbarium specimens. Among 



1 J. C. Bridwell, a private student of the seed weevils of the family 

 Bruchidae, working with his headquarters in the National Museum at 

 Washington, spent three weeks during October and November examining 

 the legumes of the newly arranged Asiatic and Indo-Malayan Herbarium 

 and collecting Bruchidae from the pods and seeds contained therein. [Ed.] 



