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frequently obtuse, and the leaves more slender. If these modi- 

 fications be wholly ecological, are they mainly a response to a 

 sandy instead of mud substratum, or to the lack of salt, or in 

 good part to freedom from periodic inundation? 



The range of Limosella suhulata must be extended southward 

 to Chesapeake Bay. G. H. Shull jo6 is from the "northeast 

 shore of Gunpowder River, one third mile northeast of its mouth," 

 Maryland, and certainly from between high and low tide. This 

 collection and most of those from the tide-water of the Delaware 

 River are of plants coarser, usually with longer and wider leaves, 

 than the typical New England form. While the plant occurs 

 on the Delaware between Philadelphia and Trenton, as near 

 Burlington, New Jersey, this is much above the usual limit of 

 salt water. As a general statement, we may say that Limosella 

 suhulata is primarily a plant of brackish soil, but that it Is fully 

 able to meet a dilute or even quite non-saline environment. 

 New York Botanical Garden 



IN THE WAKE OF THE ENEMY! 



This dirge for the orchards of France may be familiar to many of our readers, 

 but losses described by the letter immediately followiftg the verse, are just as 

 indefensible. Can there still be found in this country people who, in spite of acts 

 like these, cherish pre-war delusion about the " The Kindly German?" — Ed. 



THE TREES OF FRANCE. 



Hush, little leaves, your springtime dance, 

 Sigh for the murdered trees of France. 



Friends were they of the peasant folk, 

 Friends whom the birds and kine bespoke. 



Spoil are they of destroying lust, 

 ' Not of the battle stroke and thrust. 



They are a garden still to see, 

 They are the world's Gethsemane. 



Hush, little leaves, your springtime dance. 

 Sigh for the murdered trees of France. 



— McLandburgh Wilson. 



