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cal, somewhat deciduous. May be called C. uwmbellata Nutt. var. deewmbens, 
from the habit of its stem. Dry, wooded hills, Poysippi, Wanshara Co., Wis., 
July, 1883. Perhaps only local.—E. J. Hix, Englewood, Il., July 28, 1884. 
A Reply.—To the Editor of the Botanical Gazette:—Allow me a word in 
reference to Specularia and Campanula. My critic, in the notice of my pamphlet 
in the September number of the Gazerrn, after quoting me to the effect that 
the genuine Campanulas have bell-shaped flowers and the Specularias have 
rotate ones, goes on to say that “it would seem that the original Canterbury 
Bell is no longer a Campanula!” I confess my inability to understand this. 
Wood’s Botanist and Florist is all I have at hand at present to consult, but he 
distinctly states that in Campanula medium, Canterbury Bells, the flowers are 
It would therefore come under Campanula, as I have stated it. 
Again, in reference to Specularia. Wood states that the flowers are “ 
sile, erect.” Gray does not state as to this. But my critic says positively that 
they are not erect. My experience is that they are erect, in opposition, at least, 
to drooping. Lastly, if there are plenty of species of Campanulas with sessile 
and rotate flowers, there is all the more reason for the union of the two genera 
into one. On the whole, therefore, I do not see that I am so very far out of 
the way after all. The word “suggests” would convey a better idea of the 
manner in which the suggestion was made than the word “ announces,” which 
has a disagreeable sound.—Jos. F. JAmEs 
Siphoptychium Casparyi, Rostfki.—In August of last year I found om 
the surface of a decaying log at Lake Placid, Adirondack mountains, an ZEtha- 
lium or Compound plant of the Myxomycetes, which presents some interesting 
features. 
Its dimensions were large, being one foot by eighteen inches in diameter in 
the main portion of the plant, which, with various prolongations additional, 
gave an area of at least two square feet. Subsequent examination led me t0 
refer the plant to the genus Siphoptychium, as far as the g discription, alone 
given in Dr. Cook’s British Myxomycetes, would permit. This genus is one 
the two new genera created by Rostafinski in the supplement to his Monograph, 
and has not yet been recorded as American? Through the kindness of Prot. 
Farlow, to whom I referred the plant for identification, I am enabled to append 
a translation of its specific description, as contained in the Polish Monograph- 
This description so literally applies to my plant that any further detailed 
account of it is unnecessary, : 
Siphoptychium Casparyi, Rostfii. On the strongly developed hy pothallus 
stand collected sporangia, having an angular columnar form in consequence of 
mutual pressure, and slightly convex at the apex. The tubes of the capillitium 
issuing from the columella are few in number and develop in rows. . 
hypothallus, the walls of the sporangia, the columella and the mass of the 
spores are everywhere umber brown. The spores are finely echinulate, 57° — 
7.5 mm.—Gro. A. Rex, M. D., Philadelphia. : 
Teratology.—I have before me a most curious case of an abnormal daisy, 
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, In it there are three heads on the same stem, PO 
