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The Wind River specimens of Danaea coloradensis in my hands 

 are more numerous and better preserved than either Knowlton's 

 tvpe, or the material in the Museum of the University of Colo- 

 rado, and will be fully described in an account of the associated 

 flora of about 35 species upon which I have been working for 

 some time. 



The beds are stratigraphically above the true Wind River 

 formation and are middle Eocene in age, being obviously the 

 same age as the Green River flora. Whether, with their dif- 

 fering lithology they should be called Green River or referred 

 to the Bridger has not yet been decided. 



Edward W. Berry. 



Trilisa ox the Market 



I am sure it will be of interest to most botanists as it was to 

 the writer to learn that rather large quantities of the basal leaves 

 of Trilisa are gathered, dried, and sold for incorporation into 

 smoking tobaccos. In the section of Georgia where I learned 

 about the matter the plant is called deer-tongue, and I am in- 

 formed by Mr. R. K. Hopkins, general merchant of Meridian, 

 who certainly knows whereof he speaks, that while in some years 

 the quantity would not exceed five or ten tons, in others very 

 much more, possibly one hundred tons are gathered and shipped 

 from Liberty, Mcintosh, and Glynn Counties, Georgia. Whether 

 both of the species, paniculata and odoratissima are collected, I 

 am unable to say, but probably they are. Samples of the dried 

 leaves obtained seemed to be the latter species. They retained 

 their strong coumarin (vanilla) odor undiminished for the three 

 months they were in my possession. 



W. L. McAtee. 



A Yellow Varl\tion of Eustoma (Gentl\naceae) 



1 am much indebted to Mr. E. Bethel for the loan of a sheet of 

 Eustoma russellianum (Hook) Griseb., belonging to the State 

 Museum, including specimens of a remarkable new form (f, 

 flaviflorum nov.) with clear yellow flowers. This variety was 

 found by Mrs. S. B. Walker along with ordinary blue forms from 



