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Most of the description was taken from my no. ii ig. Cedar 

 Swamp, Fairhaven, Vt., altitude loo meters, May 14, 1898, and 

 June 27, 1899, and iios. ig6o and /p<5y, Blueberry Hill Bog, 

 Rutland, Vl. 



Xo. ^2d, O. A. Farwell, Keweenaw County, Mich. (Columbia 

 University herb.) and a specimen collected by J. A. Morton, at 

 Wingham, Ont. (Eggleston herb.) are of the same species. 



This species seems confined to the cold swamps of low alti- 

 tude, while A. oligocarpa is arctic-alpine. 



W. W. Eggleston. 



Xrcw York Botanicai. Garden. 



N.ature's Engrafting. — About two years ago while wander- 

 ing over a cypress flat, I found Picris niiida growing from the 

 trunk of Taxoduiiii iiiibricanum. The branch was in a healthy, 

 vigorous condition and grew more than a foot from the ground, 

 as perfect a specimen of engrafting as could be done by the hand 

 of man. 



The tree was on the outer edge of the flat. The undergrowth 

 showed no indication of having been inundated for a year at 

 least. A few yards away there were numerous trees {Taxodiuni) 

 standing in water a foot or more in depth, each surrounded by a 

 luxuriant growth o^ Picris. In the course of time I found the 

 flat perfectly dry, as is the way with these cypress ponds of the 

 pine-barren districts. I lost no time in further investigating the 

 matter. Imagine my surprise, on brushing aside the dense foli- 

 age to find many of the trees encircled by a luxuriant growth of 

 the Picris, like a green collarette, quite high from the ground 

 and having no connection with it. In Torkkv.a of February, 

 1903, Mr. Roland M. Harper reported the peculiar habit of Picris 

 phUlvrcaefolia as seen by him in the Okefinokee Swamp climbing 

 the Taxodiuni, explaining that it crept under the bark from the 

 ground, and after ascending quite a height, branched out, having 

 the appearance of a parasite. He also quoted Dr. Chapman's 

 ob.servations with regard to the same peculiar habit of this 

 "make-believe" vine. There was no evidence of such a condi- 

 tion in this ca.se. The plants had every appearance of having 

 flourished and fruited for years. Mk.s. Augustus P. Taylor. 



TiioMAsvii.i.p;, Gkokgia. 



