28 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
known in N. Europe. In Dr. Vasey’s recent paper on “The Grasses of the 
United States,” the range given is from British America to Alaska. The pres- 
ent locality, therefore, extends its range several hundred miles southward. It 
probably occurs in Minnesota, as I found it but six miles south of the state 
line. It grows quite rank, in water from one to two feet deep, along with such 
plants as Scirpus fluviatilis, Gray, 8. validus, Vahl, and Typha latifolia, L.—R. L. 
Crattry, Armstrong, Iowa. 
Sarcodes sanguinea.—Mrs. Austin’s interesting note I only saw recently, 
on my return from the Pacific. While in the Yosemite Valley, on the 17th of 
June, Dr. Chas. Schaffer, of the Philadelphia Academy, Mr. J. M. Hutchings, the 
well-known and estimable guardian of the Yosemite, and I, took a pick-axe to 
Glacier Point especially to study the snow plant. We dug out carefully a fine 
specimen. It had started about a foot below the surface. We took the mass 
We may say positively it is not a parasite in the usual sense of the word. Is it 
@ saprophyte—a plant of the Monotropa type, feeding on decaying vegetable 
matter? We cquld find no trace oftvegetable matter more than is found in any 
ordinary earth, except here and there a few scattered pieces of charcoal about 
the size of peas, and not many of these. There was really nothing to indicate 
that the plant might not live and grow as ordinary plants, just as Mrs. Austin 
allorhiza, Monotropa, and similar “ saprophytes.” Is it a perennial as Mrs. A 
believes? I know Corallorhiza wil 
kindly sent to me by a lady in Nevada, but there was no sign of their appear- 
ance last year. I have sown seeds now which I brought from the Pacific, in 
_ this piece of woods, 
elaborate it for themselves, 
orated, and hence have no. 
e there is a very interesting field open for 
vestigation. THomas MEEHAN. 
