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related to V. bipinnatifida with which it has heretofore been 

 associated. It differs from the latter species in the narrow leaf- 

 segments and the smaller, pale and persistent corollas. It hybrid- 

 izes with Verbena Wrightii. 



II. Verbena brevibracteata (A. Gray). \V. bracteosa var. 

 brevibracteata A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. 2 : 336. 1878.] This 

 plant is so different from Verbena bracteosa that I am surprised it 

 was associated with that species as a variety. It has an erect 

 habit and grows in sandy woods or in fields. The flowers are in 

 dense spikes and the corolla is red and twice as large as that of 

 V. bracteosa. 



Henry Eggert. 

 East St. Louis, Illinois. 



Lunularia cruciata " in Fruit." — Lunnlaria cruciata, hereto- 

 fore recorded as "gemmiferous but always sterile in America," 

 has at last fruited here. In a large lath-house belonging to the 

 California Nursery Company, in Niles, California, this hepatic is 

 very abundant, overrunning the half-sunk pots and the ground 

 between them. 



Early in April on the drier parts of this shady earthen floor, 

 the Ltinularia was found to bear many of the small, white tuft- 

 like sheaths that cover the young archegonial receptacles. Two 

 weeks later quantities of the androecia were observed on the same 

 plants but not in any case on the very same division of the 

 thallus. By the 9th of May there were eleven perfect capsule- 

 bearing receptacles and many that were just beginning to push 

 through the scales of the sheaths, the silvery, pellucid peduncles 

 shining through the fimbriate edges. Later, many of these per- 

 fected, but more just withered as the air became drier and 

 warmer. 



This lath -house is for the protection of potted azaleas, rhodo- 

 dendrons, araucarias, acacias, etc., is kept damp, and is of course 

 more open to wind and rain than a glass house. Possibly these 

 conditions approach those of the European habitats of this liver- 

 wort. 



Julia T. Shinn. 



Niles, California. 



