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oracutish: stipules silvery : calyx becoming 1.5 mm. long; sepals 

 ovate to oblong-ovate, abruptly pointed at the apex, but not 

 cuspidate, glabrous: utricle included. 



In dry soil, mountains of southern Pennyslvania, Virginia, 

 North Carolina, and Georgia. 



Mountains near Hyndman, Pennyslvania, Small, August 19- 

 23, 1890 (type). 



Stony Man Mountain, Virginia, Steele, August 30, 1901. 



Eagle Mountain R. R., Virginia, Steele, August 18, 1903. 



Julius' Creek Mountain, Virginia, Steele, August 26, 1903. 



Andrews, North Carolina, Huger, September, 1900. 



Georgia, Gray. 



Related to Anychiastrum Baldwinii from which it differs in its 

 glabrous and larger calyx, the sepals which are without prominent 

 apical cusps, and the eciliate leaf-blades. 

 L J. K. Small 



OF INTEREST TO TEACHERS 



The Term Biology 



Among the students from the dozen or more colleges registering 

 yearly at Teachers College the term biology is so commonly 

 misused that the question may profitably, perhaps, be raised 

 here. Biology is used as synonymous with zoology. Such stu- 

 dents speak of wishing to take "biology and botany"; of having 

 had ''more botany than biology," etc. 



The Century and Standard dictionaries give no authority for 

 such usage. The Century dictionary definition follows: (i) The 

 science of life and living things in the widest sense ; the body of 

 doctrine respecting living beings; the knowledge of vital phe- 

 nomena. (2) In a more special sense, physiology; bio-physiol- 

 ogy; biotics. (3) In a technical sense, the life history of an 

 animal, especially used in entomology. (4) Animal magnet- 

 ism. The Standard dictionary differs only in the first of 

 the four uses of the word, and biology is defined as (i) The 

 science of life or living organisms treating of the phenomena 

 (structure, growth, development, distribution and functions) 



