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A NEW ERYTHRONIUM. 
By Henry N. BonanDeER. 
Erythronium Johnsonii. Corm 14 to 2 inches long, thinly 
coated, new ones evidently produced by offshoots from the 
base of the corm. Scape 10-12 inches high; flower buds 1} 
inches long; segments 14 inches long, acuminate, three inner 
segments appendaged or auricled. Jueaves two, 5-6 inches 
long, lanceolate, 1} inches wide, strongly mottled. Style % to 
4 of an inch long. Stigmas three, long and spreading. 
Anthers % of an inch long, bright yellow; filaments shorter, 
dilated. Capsule oblong-obovate, obtuse above. Color a bright 
pinkish rose outside, inside golden orange, deepening to a 
dark purple. 
Coast Ranges of southern Oregon. May. Collected by 
A. J. Johnson. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 
Proressor E. L. Greene has resigned his position as head 
of the Department of Botany in the University of California 
and accepted the professorship of botany in the Catholic 
University of America, in Washington, D. C. At his new 
seat of activity Professor Greene expects for the present, at 
least, to be able to devote practically all his time to research 
work and, in addition, possess the advantages of access to the 
various Government collections and libraries. The best 
wishes of his former associates go with him to his new home. 
Proressor Lester F. Warp, the distinguished paleobot- 
anist of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., will 
visit the Pacific Coast during the coming autumn months for 
the purpose of making collections and examining certain 
localities in the Sierra foothills. 
C. C. BABINGTON, one of the foremost authorities on Brit- 
ish plants, died recently at Cambridge, in his eighty-seventh 
