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over ten degrees of latitude, and from its long line of coast the 
land gradually or abruptly rises to the highest mountain tops, 
n the other hand, Florida with its sixty-four different trees, 
stretches over only about five degrees of latitude and rises only 
brought seeds and fruits from the tropics for centuries past. 
J. K. Sma. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
The grounds of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in 
Washington, which were in charge of Mr. Wm. Saunders until 
is death, have been placed under the direction of ole 
f 
Physiology. The new arrangement will give a wider capacity 
for usefulness, entailing changes in organization, also adding t 
the be aac facilities of one of the most efficient divisions 
of the ment. 
A nee of the Erysiphaceae, by Mr. E. S. Salmon, of 
Kew, England, is being published as Vol. IX. of the Memoirs of 
the Torrey cee 1 Club, This is probably the first important 
contribution to botanical rises written in England which 
has sought z= found a publisher ca. 
The station of Schizaea pusilla Ge aan at Forked River, 
N. J., was visited on the 2d of July by four ladies participating 
to the greenhouses of the Garden, and their development watched 
throughout the summer. Drawings of all the stages, including 
the first germination of the spores, have been secured. Slides 
were shown to Dr. Campbell, who pronounced them more closely 
