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which may only be recorded in field observations. Hence, this disposi- 
tion to study plants in situ can not be too highly ccmmended. In the 
case before us, by this sort of study, Dr. Parry is convinced that the four 
species of alder enumerated in the Botany of California must be reduced 
to the earliest described species, Alnus rhomlifulia Nutt. It is, by the 
way,@ more encouraging sign when open air study combines species 
than when it multiplies them in a way that no herbarium student can 
it received a great deal of water, and that may have caused it to revert, as 
the blossoms and leaves both pointed to a healthy condition of the plant. 
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pe Proceepines of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, vol. xvi, patt 
iii, just distributed, contains the following articles of general interest: A 
orest tour in Provence and the Cevennes, by Major F. Bailey; Fertilization 
Robert Lindsay; Adaptation of Albuca to insect fertilization, by 
; Certain properties of rosewood and other hard woods, 
by John Rattray; Certain points in th Ilania, ete., by 
Prof. Alexander Dickson. i & vices mia. e cae’ ci fbechibk: a 
Mr. Ratpa Sypney Snir has published an earnest appeal for the 
preservation of a Redwood park north of Santa Cruz. In remarking 
bo a this important subject, D i ; 
If nothing is done to presexve for posterity a specimen of 
istant generations of Californi i ile the memory 
al taair lorckak ; nians will have cause to revile 
