94 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
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In a specimen of Rhyncospora (Ceratoschoenus) macrostaes 
Torr., from Arkansas, the perianth consists of short, stout, eee 
shaped bristles, thus destroying one of the characters suppose 
distinguish it from R corniculata, Gray. : ‘| 
arex glauca, Scop., was found growing in sterile clayey nd 
near London, Ont., in June, 1881, by Dr. ’. Burgess, @ 
in a railway cutting near Windsor, Nova Scotia, by Prof. Macoun, 
in June, 1883. ; 
Carex hirta, L., is occasionally met with near Boston and cz 
ballast.heaps at Philadelphia. Both species are probably immt 
grants from Europe, 
Notes on Phoradendron flaveseens, Nutt. I. 
BY J. SCHNECK. 
Althou 
half of our Union 
tion of its bud to the mature frui 
understood. The 1 
made during the past eighteen months, and may help to develop’ 
the facts in the case. ee 
ee. 25, 1882—Fruit abundant and ripe. Mature piste 
flowers on the same plants, but these are always toward the dista 
extremity from the fruit. Staminate flowers, on separate plants, 
withered, but the stamens clearly visible, in the more perfect, 0B 
pressing back the sepals. Buds in the axils of the leaves. f 
Jan. 15, 1883—Staminate spikes withered and dropping 0¥) 
but no change in the pistillate, ts 
April 20, 1883—Could find no male spikes, but many plan 
that have no spikes at all. Pistillate flowers larger and more 
