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flowers. Itis a free grower and the heads are borne in great 
profusion. It also has the advantage of flowering all through 
the fall, continuing from the late summer, and persisting in send- 
ing forth its flowers-until killed by the frost. 
For a large mass of grayish-white few plants can excel Expa- 
torium serotinum, latest of all its genus to bloom. The stems are 
six to eight feet tall, and send forth a profusion of small heads, 
named. A rough the country in almost any woodland 
or meadow will reveal them in all their abundance and beauty. 
& V. Nasu. 
WEATHER REPORT FOR OCTOBER, 1900. 
Total amount of precipitation 2.9 inches 
Maxima of 79.5 on the 5th, 74 on the 12th, 75.5 on the 15th, 
77-5 on the 16th, 77 on the 23d and 81 on the 24th, and minima 
of 58 on the 1st, 39 on the roth, 41 on the 11th, 43 on the 15th, 
33 on the 16th, 32 on the 17th, 39.5 on the 18th, 27 on the roth, 
and 30.5 on the 18th were observed. 
ACCESSIONS. 
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM. 
1 specimen of Helianthus mollis from Hay Island. (Given by Miss Mulford. ) 
40 specimens of whole and granulated Jamaica ginger, whole and granulated Afri- 
can ginger, and ginger ale. (Given by the Gosman Ginger Ale Company, Baltimore, 
6 anti plates. (Given by Mr. Morris Coster.) 
29 pecimens $ Tepresenting | a a pies maple muddler, a lignu 
d cobola bottle stopper, bungs, Brewers 
(Given as = Redlich Manufacturing Company, 
vite tody-stick, a 
Beech shavings and sugar plugs. 
Chicago. ) 
ice, German millet, German maw, French aay Sicily 
si hemp- -seed, rape-seed, mixed bird-seed, Prussian sunflower-seed and Amer- 
e 
ican ‘sunflower-seed. (Given by the Philadelphia Bird Food Compan 
