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OPEN LETTERS. 
Distribution of the Darlingtonia in Oregon. 
Tue Darlingtonia Californica grows plentifully in the 
Coast Mountains about the 42d parallel. It is to be found in 
all of the spring runs and swamps and along creeks—in fact 
in all wet places for many miles and I think this is the home 
of it and that the upper Sacramento localities are outlying 
stations. Growing with it are a number of other plants not 
generally known to range out of California, such as Parnassia 
Californica, Aster Hendersonii, Helenium Bigelovit, Rud- 
beckia Californica, Cypripedium Californicum, Scirpus 
criniger and others that I cannot now call to mind. 
The geological formation in the region is a peculiar kind of 
serpentine and, for the most part, the lower portions of the 
mountains are well supplied with springs that run clear 
water all the year. 
Yours, 
THos. HowELL. 
Clackamas, Oregon, 16 October, 1895. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 
Tur Setember number of the Bulletin de L’ Herbier 
Boissier contains among other articles the last installment 
of G. Lindau’s monograph of American Acanthaces, and 
“ Herborisations au Cost Rica,” by Ad. Tonduz. 
In Garden and Forest of April 3, 1895 (viii, 134, £. 20) 
Mr. T. S. Brandegee described and figured a new Mimulus, 
M. Clevelandi, from the south side of Cuyamaca Peak, San 
Diego Co. It is a perennial woody species spreading by 
underground roots and said to be one of the handsomest 
members of the genus. 
H. Marsaatt Warp, Professor of Botany, Royal Indian 
Engineering College, London, has been appointed to the 
professorship of Botany in Cambridge University, made 
vacant by the death of Prof. C. C. Babington. 
