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2. Through the courtesy of Mr. George B. King unusual 
facilities hae recently been given for collecting cretaceous fossil 
plants in the gravel excavations of J. B. King & Co., in the 
vicinity of Roslyn, Long Island. These facilities included trans- 
portation of the writer to and from the locality, subsistence and 
the shipping of material collected, without expense to the 
The result was the acquisition of a number of new specimens, rep- 
resenting the cretaceous flora of Long Island, which will be added 
to the already large and unique collection from this vicinity. 
ArtuHuR Hottick. 
SUWARRO OR SAGUARO. 
author is in receipt of a number of comments upon the 
proper form of the common name of Cereus gigantcus. Saguaro, 
sahuaro, zuwarrow, suwarrow and suwarro have all been used 
arious writers, and the last-named form appeared in an 
pee in the August number of the Journal, following the usage 
of Sargent in his “ Silva of North America.” Mr. Frederick V. 
Coville and the author had previously decided upon and used 
“Saguaro”’ in the publications of the Desert Botanical Laboratory 
of the Carnegie Institution, and Mr. Herbert Brown, a naturalist 
of Yuma, Arizona, asserts that this form is always used by the 
people in the region included in the range of the a and all 
of the evidence seems to be in favor of the use of this t 
Since the ae ea of the August Journal a mate of the 
“‘Personal Narratives of J. O. Pattie,’ edited b .G. 
Thawaites, has = published in which attention is called to the 
fact that an observation of the Cereus giganteus was made in 
1825, thus confirming the statement by the author 
Regarding the distribution of the tree cactus in California Mr. 
Brown also says ‘‘ The saguaro does not grow in the hills back 
of Picacho, but it does grow in the Senator Mine basin, on the 
river 20 miles above here (Yuma, Arizona), There are 12 to 15 
trees in the Basin, but not more, and they are scattered over 
some square miles. It does not occur elsewhere in California 
