420 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
aphylla, now known as ‘‘ Galaxy,” from the South Alleghanies, have 
become fashionable for funeral wreaths: they are picked by the 
c , and are becoming more expensive, only too certainly a 
sign of diminished st = ringed gentians from the 
Berkshire hills and their allies the Sabbatias, the favourites of the 
woul 
em to be similarly imperilled. Last, but not least, the trailing 
white bells have disappeared from many parts of New York.+ I 
: wind 
country, are settin 
flora from such threatened destruction. 
e case, harm is more the result of ignorance or 
thoughtlessness than of sign. In connection wi e excellent 
na ovement in the United States, we not only read 
ecology, or even systematic botany, common Species are, in general, 
better than rarities. | 
* Mrs. E. G. Britton, « Vanishing Wild Flowers,” p. 88. 
+ New York Tribune, May 5, 1901, quoted by Mrs. Britton. 
¢ Mary Perle Anderson, loc. cit. 
§ Mrs. Britton, « Vanishing Flowers,”’ p. 90. 
|| [The action of the London County Council in supplying specimens seems 
to recognize this, as “ n i 
