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Although I have obtained a good many specimens, I do 
not know of any being found here by any one else, and I do 
not think it has been found in bloom elsewhere on the coast, 
although botanists have searched for it in many localities. 
here is another species, Phyllospadix Scouleri, that was 
collected in imperfect specimens at Vancouver, and at the 
mouth of Russian river, but had never been found south of 
there, or indeed anywhere for several years, until this year, my 
usband, who is my associate in all my collecting, and without 
whose untiring assistance I could accomplish but little in field 
work, has found a specimen with pistillate blossoms. The 
leaves of this plant are broader than those of P. Torreyi, rib- 
bon-like and three-nerved ; the peduncles are short and with 
a single spathe. 
Our Zostera is somewhat different from that of the Atlantic 
coast, the leaves nearly one-half inch wide and ten to thirteen 
nerved ; the fruit is also larger than the eastern form. Cal- 
ifornia is a land of large products, which may in some meas- 
ure explain this fact; but our plant is considered a new 
variety by Rev. Thomas Morong, who describes it under the 
name Zostera marina, var. latifolia. 
Strasburger’s Laboratory. 
DOUGLAS H. CAMPBELL. 
_ The laboratory is not at all pretentious, and is fitted up 
in the plainest possible manner. In company with the zool- 
ogical and palwontological laboratories, it occupies an old 
uilding known as the ‘* Poppelsdorfer-Schloss,” originally 
the dwelling of some. dignitary or other, and not specially 
adapted to its present purpose. It isa large square building, 
enclosing a central circular court, around which a gallery, 
level with the second story, is built, by means of which access 
is had to the various rooms. 
The building is finely situated at the head of a magnifi- 
cent double avenue of horse-chestnuts, some half-mile in 
oh which forms the favorite promenade of the citizens 
of Bonn. Three sides of the building are included in the 
botanical garden, which is a very good one. 
n the garden there is a very good collection of hardy 
plants, and besides some half-dozen green-houses and con- 
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