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Cephalidaceae 

 Piptocephalis repens Van Tieghem 



Very common among other moulds on horse and dog manure. 

 It is parasitic on other moulds. 

 PrrTSBURGH, Pknnsylvania 



SHORTER NOTES 



"^ A Nezv Name. — Pentstemon Metcalfei Wooton & Standley, 

 nom. nov. 



P. pubenihts Wooton & Standley, Bull. Torrey Club 36 : 112 

 4 Mr 1909. 



Not P. piiberiiliis M. E. Jones, Contr. Western Bot. 12 : 64. 

 1908. 



Prof. A. A. Heller kindly called our attention to the fact that 

 the name P. piiberuliis was used last year by Mr. Jones. We 

 had Mr. Jones' paper at hand at the time of naming the plant 

 but had neglected to examine it for new species of Pentstemon. 



E. O. Wooton 



Agricultural College, New Mexico 



A "Weeping" Spruce. — Some weeks ago Miss Helen Stewart 

 brought to Teachers College a specimen of a curious spruce tree 

 which was collected about one hundred miles north of Winnipeg. 

 The Indian guides call it the " Unknown Tree," and claim that it 

 is the only one in existence. The tree is described as about sixty 

 feet high, with the lower branches at least twenty feet from the 

 ground ; the strikingly pendulous branches are six or more feet 

 long, slender, and themselves but little branched. About the 

 same time a specimen was taken to the New York Botanical 

 Garden ; the rather indefinite description of the locality indicates 

 that the two specimens came from the same place, and possibly 

 from the same tree. Dr. Britton has pronounced it a "weeping" 

 spruce, probably Picea canadensis ; the twigs are thicker than 

 usual (due perhaps to its peculiar habit of growth) but the 

 sterigmata indicate P. canadensis. 



Jean Broadhurst 



