September i8, 1895.] 



Garden and Forest. 



375 



figure made from this cultivated specimen was published in 

 Tlie Botanical Magazine two years later (xxxv., t. 1471). It 

 probably will not be found now outside its native swamps. 

 The very complicated synonymy of the Pond Spice is 

 displayed on page 276 of Mez's Monographia Lauracese 

 Americanas in the fifth volume of the Jahrbucli des Kimi- 

 glichen Boianischen Gartens und des Botanischen Museums 

 zu Berliti. C. S. S. 



Plant Notes. 



Nyssa sylvatica. — The Tupelo, or Pepperidge, as it now 

 appears in Central Park and on some of the rugged slopes 

 in the northern parts of Manhattan Island, is certainly one 



Tennessee it attains its largest size on elevated slopes. 

 Some of the trees in Central Park carry their branches in 

 horizontal strata around the central stem ; in others these 

 branches droop at the extremities, while others still form 

 close, round-headed tops ; but all of them are graceful. 

 Already there are branches here and there on which the 

 leaves begin to glow with the scarlet which will make 

 them in a iew weeks rivals of the Sweet Gum and the Flow- 

 ering Dogwood. It is almost useless to attempt to trans- 

 plant large trees of this species from the woods, but the 

 seeds germinate readily, and if often shifted in nursery 

 rows, young trees can be moved without difficulty. 



RuDBECKiA suBTOMENTOSA. — This is One of the very best 

 of the tall composites which are so interesting at this sea- 



A flowering: branch of the staminate plant, natural size. 2. 

 with its involucre, enlarged. 5. A staminate Hower, 



ranks, front view, enlarged. 8. A pistillate flower, enlarged. 

 Vertical section ot a fruit, enlarged. 13. A nut, enlarged. 



Litsea geniculata. — See page 374. 



A flowering branch of the pistillate plant, natural size. 3. A flower-bud, enlarged, 

 enlarged. 6. A stamen of the inner rantt with its glands, front view, enlarged. 7. 



\ An umbel of flowers 

 A stamen of the outer 



9 and 10, Staminodia of the pistillate flower, enlarged. 11. A fruiting branch, natural size. 



of the most picturesque and distinct of our native trees. 

 We have already figured this tree in a group (vol. iii., p. 

 490) and as a single specimen (vol. vii., p. 275), and have 

 described it so frequently that there is little to add here, 

 beyond calling attention again to its singularly clean, dark 

 green and glossy foliage in the summer, its fiery colors in 

 autumn, and its ever-graceful and individual habit. Like 

 many other trees which grow naturally in damp soil, it 

 flourishes well on uplands, especially where the soil is 

 warm and rich. Indeed, in the mountains of Carolina and 



son of the year. It is a plant of branching habit which 

 grows four feet high, and its bright yellow flowers are pro- 

 duced in large numbers and for a long time. It is the best 

 of the larger Cone flowers, and if it can have a good stiff 

 soil in full sunlight it will always make a striking and 

 showy plant. The cones are dark brown and hemispheri- 

 cal, and the florets are a bright yellow, about an inch long, 

 and being rather narrow they are quite separate and give 

 the flowers a very distinct and interesting appearance. Of 

 course, there are many other excellent Cone flowers. Rud- 



