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148 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
Hibiscus roseus of Thore—a species supposed to be indigenous to the piece 
coast of France, also found in Italy—with our Marsh Hibiscus. He is ¢ 
aware that the same identification has been made by Mr. Daydon Jackson, an : é 
published a year or two ago in the nineteenth volume of the Journal of the Lin - 
nean Society, London. Dr. Guillaud has had the advantage of seeing the two : 
plants growing spontaneously, ours in the neighborhood of New York, the other 
in the marshes of the Landes. H. roseus has also been found in North Italy, i ¢ . 
the marshes of the Po and lagunes of the Adriatic, and, according to Dr. Guil- : 
laud, specimens have been received from Asia Mi inor, but no mention is made ! 
of it in Boissier’s Flora tigi: lis. ; 
Is this species pyaro o Europe as well as to the Atlantic oe 4 : 
North America? Is  euvied from the time when the floras of Eaters i 
astern America ‘as ie common elements than they now e? Or nt 
pastes get eyed across the Atlantic, and if so, whether at some ery 
period, or within historic times? Questions ad cope answ ed Con. 
then this plant, like a few others that might be named, i in Europe wie 
vallaria majalis, Littorella lacustris, Marsilia qua Se drium and per 
ear riflora 
Calluna are in North America. ‘ favor of the viii view, a and even of Eo 
and casual introducti it is to b id, as Dr. Guillau d notes, that 
Vike cetoxicum.—Following some authority, which it is now not 
while to look up, it appears that in the Synoptical Flora of N. America, De 
derived this name from “vineues, that serves for binding” and foxicum. e 
Hance, in Britten’s Journal of Botany for May, 1883, ste @) pee ys only a 
thority ae this adjective i - a end of Plautus in which v . ipo 
have been a mistake of so st for juncea, a (2), that t the old herb ‘name 
Fuchs and agpapacin. clearly OE vicata that the Latin part of this hybrt brid 
: cong 
Ags, tava om ‘Saxitragacen are of small account, as Prof. Coulter’s ie 
show me by aa di ay with good stipules between the cau 
‘ese. It see ater, regularly 
“Breweria minima,’ Gea in Proc. Am. Acad. xvii, 22 
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ta. Li 
‘ ledite n region, probably with grain. It turns up from 
Califor of late. The style and stigmas are truly as in Convolow 
