BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 193 
celled flowers.” Upon which we remarked, in passsing ,that it would seem from 
this that the original Canterbury Bell is no longer a Campanula. Mr. James is 
unable to understand this, and the reader of his reply may say the same if he 
fails to notice that in repeating the criticised statement above quoted he has 
left out the word “drooping.” Our point was that the flowers of Campanula 
Medium are erect in anthesis, and in that respect out of his character for Cam- 
panula, But, as we said before, a large number of Campanulas have erect flow- 
ers, some of which, as in C, Medium, are inclined or recurved on their peduncle 
or pedicel after anthesis, and some not. As “ Wood’s Botanist and Florist -.... 
distinctly states that in Canterbury Bells the flowers are bell-shaped, it would 
therefore come under Cwmpanula as I have stated it ”—i. e. under the altered 
statement. So it would if it had the rotate cous of C. planiflora or the sub- 
rotate corolla of some other species, or the quite erect peduncle or the sessile 
flowers of certain other 
But the gist of our criticism was that the flowers are not erect in C. Amer- 
icana. Mr, James replies that in his experience “they are erect, at least in op- 
sition to drooping.” Next summer, when he lpoks up the plant i in blossom, he 
will probably find that, while the capsule is erect, the flowers in anthesis are so 
placed that the flat face of the corolla is parallel with the vertical axis of in- 
florescence 
S Lastly, if there are plenty of species of Campanula with sessile and mokete 
pig there is all the more reason for the union of the two genera into one,” 
tr. James thinks. A third course might be taken, namely, to let them alone 
Upon 8 characters which botanists have recognized. 
Main es.—A forty-mile stage ride through the more thinly settled 
portion of ine iad Maine, during the past sileanngnits exhibited one botan- 
ical phenomenon of eee’ interest and beauty. 
were riding along the banks of the Canabassett river, a noisy, little 
ust wait, So in a few miles I will show you the biggest 
ever yous 
Before oe we came to a tract of some 4,000 acres, over which lumbering 
‘Operations had been carried on some years ago, leaving a tangled mass of limbs 
and underbrush. 
On June 8th, of the present year, a fire broke out and swept over this entire 
tract, lasting for two weeks, and bone with such fury that it was almost im- 
Possible for the stage to travel along the roa 
The driver ssid that the new vegetation beeen to start in three gies after 
the fire, and as we drove along, August 14th, our road passing t ugh this 
tract for four miles, the whole region as far as the eye could bei Sp over _ : 
and Valley, ridge and interval was one mass of ‘color from the “fireweed, 
Epilobium ee It looked, as one of the party said, as if the earth were 
®overed four or five feet deep with a fall of pink snow. The sight was one 
never to be ze ne tien: 
Now comes the query, “ Where did the plants come from?” The region 
