1888. ] ” BOTANICAL GAZETTE, . ¢ 193 
thought very desirable to select three to six townshi | ale of land, which 
shall be held as a forest reserve. Here nature should take aici 
the woody plants and herbs and the harmless game should be protected. 
ord and Grand Traverse. Here the pr plains land is to be tested with 
grasses, other forage plants and poor. tre EAL. 
Agricultural ie, Mich. 
Dis eased plums. 
The accompanying drawing (half natural size) represents an ab- 
et growth of the plum (Prana Americana), produced in conse- 
quence of the attack of a fun- 
8 ovary has been 
swollen sac. Has tl ded i this country before now? 
Seles. Chee as this species been recorded in a Fiiue 
Proterogynous Umbellifere, 
n the May number of the GazeTre, p. 134, Prof. Trelease has again 
varied fae pettion of eat ani e Um ree. 
Visitors of most of the species rowing in my neighborhood, py ‘4 may 
give the general result of ies growing in my 2 although I must apie 
pate - a oe views ue for my mature views and for the de 
Ose 
als Namideate Cryptotetia Canadensis and Gheerophyllam 
Procumbeus are s nacmic lla in- 
Sanicula Marylandica, Erigenia bulbosa, Zizia aurea, Pimpinella i 
tegerrima and Pol t t e proter 
Carlinville, te 7 ponia Noah see ogynous, ARLES ROBERTSON. 
