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five miles south of Miami. There the plants grew along the 

 shore for a distance of about one hundred feet, the larger ones 

 attaining a height of about thirty feet with a maximum trunk- 

 diameter of fully one foot. 



SoLANUM VERBASCiFOLiUM L. This species of Solamim occurs 

 as a tree both on the mainland of southern peninsular Florida 

 and on the Keys. In the hammocks throughout the homestead 

 country southwest of Cutler, plants of this species are not uncom- 

 mon and they sometimes grow to a height of between twenty- 

 five and thirty feet with a trunk-diameter varying from six to 

 eight inches. On the Keys, for example on the western side of 

 Elliott's Key, the plants reach about the same proportions, 

 assuming however a somewhat more stocky habit, being not quite 

 so tall but with a greater trunk-diameter. 



Genipa clusiifolia (Jacq.) Griseb. In the hammocks near 

 the coast the plants of this species are usually irregularly branched 

 shrubs. On the dunes along the seashore they commonly occur 

 as diminutive trees varying from two to six feet in height. Their 

 habit there resembles that assumed by Terviinalia Catappa, that 

 is, with the branches whorled in several tiers. In a hammock on 

 the dune several miles south of Fort Lauderdale I have found 

 many plants as fully developed trees, some of the trunks measur- 

 ing over one foot in diameter. 



New York Botanical Garden. 



SHORTER NOTES 

 A NF.w Spruce from the Canadian Rocky Mountains. — 

 In a landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains in Alberta 

 or British Columbia, probably the most striking feature is the 

 slender spruces, which at the lower altitudes in the wet grounds 

 and river bottoms are frequently found growing to the exclusion 

 of all other trees. The species has been referred by authors to 

 both Picea canadensis (Mill.) B. S. P. and P. Mariana (Mill.) B. 

 S. P., to both of which it bears a certain resemblance, but from 

 two months' experience with the tree during the past season, in 

 the region from Banff, Alberta, to Field, B. C, I am satisfied 

 that it is quite distinct from either, and therefore propose for it 

 the following- name : 



