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ee rae ee ence sete eee ee cescnaein 
tissues 7 
“a apa gente somewhat, but when the knots are young the distine- 
ark and wood still exists, th i i i 
Ra iph the knot. xists, the cambium line being deflected out- 
ata “ea wild plum in this vicinity contain no live perithecia so far 
a, . e same is often the case with the cultivated plum. Ina few in- 
“nee “a ee found on Prunus serotina. It has not yet made its appear- 
or i 
Ma. chards in the northern part of the state—A. .A. CroziER, Ann 
Th i 
ane em of Adoxa. — The Adoza Moschatellina L. grows abundantly in 
fa in northern Iowa, where it is muc infested with the Aeidium 
ie ids, es According to European botanists this fungus is a state of Puc- 
Sik is . Teleutospores have not, however, been found in America, and 
rd to account for the abundant xcidium without them. It has been 
‘A ree M8 the ecidium might be perennial in the subterranean stems of 
oe sh ve this some plants were forwarded in the spring of 1884, through 
of Mr. E. W. Holway, to Geneva, N. Y., which were thoroughly 
h no ecidium whatever has 
that Aiidiwm albescens is an 
from their nearest locality 
tart some weeks before 
How the ecidium 
ther is as great a 
out beneath the soil, but up to the present mont 
annual, _~ seems to prove quite conclusively 
and grown Sil as were removed a thousand miles 
the usual time _ ly, except that they were induced to s 
tides over the 3 i "a spring, and no cluster cups appeared 
Problem as e ong interval from one season’s activity to ano 
ver.—J. C. A. 
toa ove Florida Lichens.—During my annual winter sojourn in Florida 
had time and ry * a loss as to what sort of plants should receive attention. I 
December to Sean collected most of the flowering species to be found from 
put my house farch. Arriving in Jacksonville about Christmas and having 
old friends ag order, I was ready for activ 
lecting mee : e Phanerogamia, and numerous excursions resul 
ina heter aa — hundred species, all old acquaintances, but several, as Ver- 
even here j oe Polygala grandiflora, and Bigelovia nudata were @ novel sight 
n midwinter. Heterotheca Lamarckit was very common i 
and t 
oe hummocks I had been looking around for some new field of 
of Fungi and oe this seemed ‘o be offered me in the extraordinary abundance 
them,” and 1 ichens, To use a common expression, “ the woods 
had seen w was reminded of my mushroom-eating friends at home whom I 
andering around barn yards and fields in early morn and to whom, 
