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having been mentioned as long ago as 1788 by Thomas Walter 

 (Fl. Car. 241), who treated our species as identical with the 

 European Hex Aquifolium, I. opaca not having been described 

 until the following year. A yellow-fruited form of /. vcrticillala 

 from Massachusetts has recently been described by Dr. Robin- 

 son (Rhodora, 2 : 106. My. 1900) as forma chrysocarpa (and 

 elevated to a variety later in the same year by Mr. Heller in his 

 Catalogue of North American Plants). It would therefore not 

 be surprising if other species of the same genus should occa- 

 sionally present the same variation, though I find no published 

 record of it outside of the two just mentioned. 



But a few days ago I received from Miss Laura Bennett of 

 Camilla, Georgia, some specimens of Ilex myrtifolia Walt, (a 

 species ranging from North Carolina to Florida and Louisiana), 

 with yellow berries, but otherwise indistinguishable from the 

 normal form. In the absence of other known differences it does 

 not seem worth while to give a distinctive name to this yellow- 

 berried form. 



Miss Bennett remarks that it is not so common as the various 

 red-berried species, and for that reason is more highly prized ; 

 both kinds being used for Christmas decorations. 



Roland M. Harper. 



Bryological Notes. — Miss Harriet Bailey has collected, in 

 the vicinity of Kentville, Nova Scotia, this last summer, a number 

 of rare mosses, which she has donated to the Garden Herbarium. 

 Among them is Bryum proligerum, growing on a hard sandy cliff 

 in fine condition, the stems crowded with propagula, and one 

 plant fruiting. Rapliidostcgium Jamesii also was collected on 

 spruce trunks, its usual habitat. 



Mr. E. J. Hill has sent specimens of Fissidois grandifroiis, 

 collected on the wet face of a sandstone cliff at Starred Rock, 

 Utica, Illinois, which show particularly well the method of propa- 

 gation of this species, thus far not known to fruit in America. It 

 forms small lateral buds, which send out radicles when the buds 

 first develop ; ultimately they drop off, forming new plants. 

 This species is not recorded by Correns. 



Elizabeth G. Britton. 



