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practically crisp, as soon as the protoplasm died. There were no 



temporary recoveries to complicate the determination, as is the 



case when the humidity relations are fluctuating. 



The Department of Botany, 



University of Missouri, 



Columbia, Missouri 



LOCAL FLORA NOTES — III 



By Norman Taylor 



A goodly number of replies to questions asked in the first two 

 numbers of this series have been already received. The mem- 

 bers of the club are so evidently interested that it can be only a 

 matter of short duration until many of the disputed or little 

 known species are fairly well understood, so far as the local 

 range * is concerned. Several letters and post cards containing 

 information on the distribution of certain plants have come in, 

 unaccompanied by specimens. Of the authenticity of these state- 

 ments there is, for the most part, no question. But without a 

 specimen deposited in the club's herbarium, where it constitutes 

 an indisputable record, the present members of the Torrey Club 

 can scarcely expect to silence the questionings of an incredulous 

 posterity. Members are urged to continue their kindly coopera- 

 tion so that the work may be pushed as rapidly as possible. 

 Specimens submitted in answer to questions will be put in the 

 club herbarium and full acknowledgment will be made. 



The list continues : 



COMMELINACEAE 



I. Conimelina hirtella Vahl. The only specimen in our col- 

 lections is from near Camden, N. J. Judging from the manuals 

 it should be found throughout southern Jersey. Has any one 

 seen it anywhere else in New Jersey except near Camden ? 



*The local flora range as prescribed by the Club's preliminary catalog of 1 888 is 

 as follows : All the state of Connecticut ; Long Island ; in New York, the counties 

 bordering the Hudson River, up to and including Columbia and Greene, also Sulli- 

 van and Delaware counties ; all the state of New Jersey ; and Pike, Wayne, Monroe, 

 Lackawanna, Luzerne, Northampton, Lehigh, Carbon, Bucks, Berks, Schuylkill, 

 Montgomery, Philadelphia, Delaware, and Chester counties in Pennsylvania. 



