BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 51 
common growth in the mountainous districts of Upper Georgia, but I do not 
remember to have seen the S. stellata except in the North Carolina mountains. 
Dr. Darwin known of the ar seal curative properties ascribed 
to the plant, he would not, perhaps, have written 
“ The fell Silene and gt Loe one 
or, as “Skilled in destructio 
I will mention that there was very little ae about the species under con- 
sideration, not enough, I think, to entrap the feeblest insect. Quite the con- 
trary, however, with the S. Virginica.—Exizanera L. H.Wriuis, Charleston, 8. C. 
The Genus Podophyllum.—This little genus is rapidly coming to the front 
in botanical interest and leavin g far behind the idea that it is monotypical. 
Upon the very heels of the fis of the Formosan P. pleianthum comes an- 
other new species from S. E. China. Dr. Hance, who describes it in the Journal 
of Botany for December, says that it agrees unig « its insular ally in the color, 
number, and atrocious odor of its flowers, but differs in their extra- -axillary 
position, just as the Himalayan P. Emodi disagrees with P. peltatum.” The in- 
florescence of the four species now known would form an interesting morpholog- 
ical study. In P. peltatum and P. pleianthum the leaf stalks can easily be called 
petioles, but in the two other species the prolongation above the leaf indicates a 
stem, or rather a branch from the rhizome. In the new plant, which is called 
P. versipelle, ‘the leaves vary in outline from a square, parallelogram, triangle 
or pentagon, to a circle, and are either with or without lobes. Dr. Hance 
gives the ollowing ey of the species 
I. n.—Stamens twice as many as ‘aa petals. Flowers white, sol- 
itary, ster come cpnsalts leaves. American.—P. j m. 
IL. Isostemona.—Stamens of the same number as the petals. Asiatic. 
Flowers white, solitary, extra- axillary, —P. Emodi. 
Flowers purplish, aggregated. 
Flowers between opposite terminal leaves.—P. pleianthum. 
Flowers extra-axillary.—P. versipelle 
. EDITORIAL NOTES. 
A NEW MANUAL of the flowering plants of the Northern United States is 
in course of preparation by Prof. W. A. Kellerman, of the Kansas Agricultural 
College. 
W. N. Suxsporr’s third fascicle of Washington aA gh plants is very at- 
tractive, and the price for sets or desiderata is so reason that many botan- 
ists will doubtless take this opportunity to fill up some aca: 
__ Iw vot. tv, of the Proc. Dav. Acad., Dr. C. C. Parry aor four new 
Plants from Southern and Lower California. The 
y are 
Bivgn aptera, the specific name referring to the wingless fruit, Polygala Fkie, 
ta Oreuttii, 
