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has taken place. A few fungi were collected, and specimens of 

 Dryopteris BooUii (Tuck.) Underw. and D. intermedia (Muhl.) 

 A. Gray. One cannot but note the absence of the canoe and 

 gray birches from the Cayuga flora, but the black and yellow 

 birches are met with frequently. There are some fine yellow 

 birches in this section. White, pitch and red pines occur; two 

 fine trees of Finns resinosa Ait., near the schoolhouse south of 

 Danby, at the highest elevation of the road, 1,550 feet above 

 sea level. Boughs of the red pine with cones attached were 

 brought to the city for decorative purposes, and during the 

 evening the cones gradually opened with a noticeable sound. 



I climbed the high hill, southeast of West Danby station, 

 1,577 feet above the sea, in the late afternoon. The sides of the 

 hill had suffered from a forest fire, probably during 1903, and 

 but little timber was left. In the soil were many small flat 

 stones, and near the pine clad summit were thickets of New 

 Jersey tea, Ceanothus americanns L. and dockmackie. Viburnum 

 acerifolium L. The haze so filled the valley that but little of 

 the landscape could be seen, but the rolling hills, enshrouded as 

 they were, added to the picturesqueness of the scene. On 

 descending, the fruit of deerberry, Polycodium stamineum (L.) 

 Greene, fallen to the ground, was fouri,d, in general appearance, 

 reminding one of large green service-berries. 



The following Monday, I consulted with Mr. Robert Shore, 

 head gardener at the University, about starting^ the great laurel. 

 He said the best method is by layering, when attached to the 

 shrub, or by rooting the young growth to which a heel (node of 

 older growth) is attached. The latter method was the only one 

 opened to me, and after cutting away three fourths of the leaf, 

 the cuttings were put in the greenhouse. However, I was unsuc- 

 cessful, as all the cuttings finally died. 



Hudson Falls, 

 New York 



SHORTER NOTES 



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1/ TiLiA EuROPAEA IX Oregox. — Dr. Gleason's interesting note 

 on Rhamnus dahurica in Michigan calls forcibly to mind a similar 



