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River, one and one-half miles above Chicoria in Wayne County: 

 Taxddium distichum (L.) L. C. Betula nigra L. (leaves) 

 Rich, (cone) Quercus phellos L. (leaves) 



About ten or twelve miles up the river from this locality, C. W.; 

 Cooke made a small collection of fossil leaves in 191 3. The 

 locality is on the Chickasawhay River four miles northwest of 

 Waynesboro in Wayne County. This collection contains identi- 

 fiable leaves of the following species: 



Hicoria aguatica (Michx. f.) Quercus predigitata Berry 



Britton Fagus americana Sweet 



Quercus phellos L. 



All of these are forms that are of widespread occurrence in the 



late Pleistocene of southeastern North America. 



Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



SHORTER NOTES 



Occurrence of Indian Pipe. — The article of Mr. Edwin 

 D. Hull in the June number of Torreya on the "Occur- 

 rence of the Indian Pipe {Monotropa uniflora) in a Xero^ 

 phytic Habitat" reminds me that in 1911 the plant was 

 fairly abundant in a swamp of mingled black spruce and 

 tamarack, the former predominating, in northwestern Wisconsin 

 (Gaslyn, Burnett County). The individuals were somewhat 

 dwarfed and blackened and were mostly concealed by the 

 Sphagnum. They were in flower about the first of August. 

 I had not visited the locality before nor have I since, but it im- 

 pressed me as being a permanent habitat of these plants which I 

 do not recall having seen elsewhere in the vicinity. 



J. J. Davis 

 "Modern" Botany in 182 i 



"IV. Curiosa 



"Alte Zeit und neue Zeit. 



"Frager: Was ist Botanik? 



" Linnaeus : Est scientia naturalis, quae vegetabilium cogni- 



tionem tradit. (Philos. bot. i. 1750.) 



