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parable flight, amid bubbles of gladness, their petals dart up 

 and break the surface of the water. Wounded to death, but 

 radiant and free they fl-oat for a moment beside their heedless 

 brides and the union is accomplished, whereupon the victims 

 drift away to perish, while the wife, already a mother, closes 

 her corolla [calyx], in which lives their last breath, rolls up her 

 spiral and descends to the depths, there to ripen the fruit of the 

 heroic kiss." [From Maurice Maeterlinck's essay on the ''Intel- 

 ligence of the Flowers'' in ''The Measure of the Hours.'' Dodd, 

 Mead & Co., 1910.] 



LOCAL FLORA NOTES— X 



By Norman Taylor 

 Species Specimens wanted from 



Geraniaceae 

 Geranium Rohertianum L. The coastal plain. 



G. sibiricum L. Established in the range?* 



G. pusillum Burm. New York or northern New 



Jersey. 

 G. Columhianum L. Pennsylvania 



G. Bicknellii Britton. Anywhere in the range. 



G. Pyrenaicum L. Is it known in the range? 



Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Her. Northern New York or New 



Jersey. 



OXALIDACEAE 



Oxalis Acetosella L. Below 1000 ft. elevation. 



0. Bushii Small. New Jersey. 



0. rufa Small. Anywhere in the range. 



0. stricta L. Above 1000 ft. elevation. 



* The local flora range as prescribed by the Club's Preliminary Catalogue of 1888 

 is as follows: A.11 of the state of Connecticut; Long Island; in New York the counties 

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

 and Delaware counties; all of New Jersey; and Pike, Wajme, Monroe, Lackawanna, 

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

 Philadelphia, Delaware and Chester counties in Pennsylvania. 



