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Agdestis clematidea Moq. & Sesse. — We found this 

 beautiful white-flowered vine of Mexico and Central America in 

 September climbing profusely over bushes on the playa of 

 Matanzas, Cuba ; it has evidently been cultivated in gardens 

 there, but has made itself perfectly at home in the native tangles 

 of shrubs and vines as a naturalized plant. The flowers and in- 

 florescence are wonderfully Clematis-like, greatly resembling those 

 of Clematis Vitalba of Europe and to a considerable degree those 

 of our own Clematis Virginiana. But the most striking thing 

 about the plant is its horrid odor, the flowers being, if anything, 

 more fetid than those of the carrion-flower or skunk-cabbage, a 

 fact which does not seem to be recorded in descriptions of the 

 species. According to Professor Bailey, the vine has been culti- 

 vated in California. N. L. Britton. 



A NEW Station for Arabis Georgiana. — On December 30, 

 1903, while walking along the Oostanaula River in Gordon 

 County, Georgia, near Resaca, I came upon a considerable 

 quantity of an Arabis, which by reason of its long erect pods, 

 ^pubescence, mode of branching, and other characters observable 

 at this season, can be no other than A. Georgiana, a species de- 

 scribed in ToRREVA last June, and known hitherto only from a 

 single station on the banks of the Chattahoochee River in the 

 coastal plain. The new station is in the Palaeozoic region, 

 about 167 miles from the type-locality and almost due north of 

 it. Its altitude is about 640 feet. The rock at this point is 

 what has been called Oostanaula shale, and is of Cambrian age. 



The habitats of the Arabis at the two stations arc very similar, 

 and many of the species accompanying it on the Chattahoochee 

 also occur with or near it on the Oostanaula, among those which 

 were recognizable being Arundinaria macrospernia Michx., Hy- 

 drangea arboresccns L., H. quereifolia Bartr., Platanus oecidentalis 

 L., Geuui Canadense ]^cc\., Rhus glabra L., Aeer saccharimim L. 

 {A. dasyearpiiiii l'"Jirh.), and Sassafras Sassafras (L.) Karst. 

 Some of these have rather a limited distribution in Georgia, 

 and their occurrence together at two such widely separated 

 localities is interesting. A visit to the new station in summer 



