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Lappa major, Plantago major, Verbascum 

 tkapsus, Marruhium vulgare Solarium nigrum, 

 Chenopodium album, hybridum, urbicum, bot- 

 rys and ambi-osioides, Amarantus hybridus and 

 albus, Polygonum p)ersicaria and convolvulus, 

 Rumex crispus. Cannabis sativa, Alopecurus 

 pratensis, Phleum pratense, Agrostis alba, Poa 

 compressa, Eragrostis poaioides, var. megas- 

 tachya and pilosa, Bromus secalinus, Panicum 

 sanguinale, Setaria glauca. 



2. Immigi-ant plants found eighteen years 

 ago in single specimens, now in great abundance : 



SoncMts asper, Linaria vulgaris, Leonurus 

 cardiaca, Eckinospermum Lappula, Cynoglos- 

 sum officinale, Rumex acetosella. 



3. Plants immigrated since an unknown 

 period, and found in limited numbers or single 

 localities : 



Trifolium pratense, Dactylis glomerata, Pan- 

 icum glabrum, Veronica arvensis, Rumex eb- 

 tusifolius. 



4. Immigi-ant plants not known here eighteen 

 years, and now represented in limited numbers 

 and single localities : 



Verbascum Blaltaria, Vaccaria vulgaris, Gle- 

 choma kederacea. 



5. Adventitious plants not yet truly natural- 

 ized: 



(a.) In waste places: Camelina sativa, Sa- 

 ponaria officinalis, Malva sylvestris, Hibiscus 

 trionum, Martynia proboscidea, Nepeta cata- 

 ria, Nicandra physaloides. 



(5.) Mostly escaped from cultivation, or pur- 

 posely introduced: Argemone Mexicana, Nas- 

 turtium armoracia, 3felilottis alba, Rosa rubi- 

 ginosa, Pastinaca sativa, Anethum graveolens, 

 Inula Helenium, llelianthus annuus, Tanace- 

 tum vulgare, Centaurea cyanus, Mentha viridis, 

 Satureja hortensis, Ipomea purpurea. Polygo- 

 num orientale, Fagopxjrum esculentum. Aspara- 

 gus officinalis, Phalaris Canariensis, Setaria 

 Ralica. 



6. Plants found eighteen years ago, and not 

 seen since : 



Raphanus rnphanistrum, Leucanthemum vul- 

 gare. The latter would certainly have spread 

 if not incorporated in my herbarium. 



7. Common plants, the introduction of which 

 is doubtful or contested. 



Polygonum hydropiper, Poa pratensis, Pan- 

 icum crus-galli, Datura Stramoniun var. Ta- 

 tula. 



In Europe various species of Heaths cover 

 large tracts of country ; many of them are of rare 

 beauty. But in Africa the most varied assort- 

 ment of Heaths of the genus Erica are found. 



BOTANICAL NOTES. 



BY E. M. HALB, M. D. CinCAGO, ILLS. 



AVhile on an excursion, during the last week 

 of August, to the western shore of Lake Michi- 

 gan, or that portion of it which extends between 

 Green Bay and the Lake, I met with some facts 

 ■worthy of notice, relative to the condition of 

 certain plants in that locality. 



The 45th degree of latitude crosses the penin- 

 sula nearly at its middle. From Manitowoc to 

 Death's Door, a distance of nearly a hundred 

 miles, the shore is very interesting to the botan- 

 ist. Nearly the whole distance, high blufls 

 bound the lake, while hero and there a river 

 quietly flows in, having on each side a lower 

 level. At the mouth of Wolf river, I observed 

 a i)eculiarity similar to that mentioned by Mc- 

 Gregor, in "Rob Roy on the Jordan." This 

 canoe-traveler, in his voyage on the Jordan, ob- 

 served that a bank or bar of sand or gravel had 

 formed nearly across its mouth, where it empties 

 into the Sea of Galilee. In tiie early days of 

 Chicago, the river had just such a bar across its 

 mouth, and found an outlet into the lake at an 

 extreme corner. But in the case of Wolf river, 

 the bar extends completely across its mouth, and 

 the water of the river has to filter through it 

 into the lake; and admirably is this eflected, for 

 while above the bar the river is almost black 

 with the refuse of tanneries, mills, etc., below 

 the bar, not more than ten or fifteen feet, the 

 water is clear and pure. 



The forests here are composed of Hemlock, 

 Pine, Cedar, Maple, and the more common trees. 

 Here, for the tirst time, I observed the beautiful 

 Mountain Ash (Pyrus Americana) growing 

 wild on the lake shore. The terminal branches 

 have a bark nearly as scarlet as the beriies, and 

 the tree grows over twenty feet in height. One 

 old tree, leaning over the bluff, has seen many 

 storms, for its trunk, four inches in diameter, 

 was rough and hoary with mosses and lichens. 

 All along the shore up to Wolf river I had 

 observed the bright red berries of the Dwarf 

 Cornel (Cornus Canadensis), but here along the 

 shore of the river I found great quantities of it 

 in bloom. The usual flowering season of this 

 plant is May and June. I did not observe any 

 berries on the plants at this place. Here, too, 

 in abundance, was tne wild Strawberry {Fra- 

 garia Virginiana) in full bloom! But the 

 people said it had fruited in July. 



There are some climatic peculiarities of this 

 locality. Although only thirty miles west of 

 the city of Green Bay, navigation opens here 

 three or four weeks earlier than at the latter 



