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discbarge is passed, it will then heal up alone, and a little cooling 

 ointment must be applied to keep it from cracking." I was told 

 that the ointment caused much pain, and that it seemed to affect 

 the cancerous part to the very roots, drying it up, and eventually it 

 came away from the roots, "like a carrot." The receipt was 

 obtained for me by a relation from some person in Italy. Perhaps 

 some^of your readers can give details of its efficacy. — C. H. 



Artemisia Stelleriana Bess. (pp. 70, 104).— I can add several 

 localities in the United States, tnough all in this little State of 

 Rhode Island. Two years ago it was sent me from Newport, R. I., 

 for a name, and last summer I found it in Little Compton, R. I. 

 These two localities are separated by a deep arm of the sea. 

 I believe it also occurs at Narraganset Pier, across another arm of 

 the Bay. In all these places it is always near the shore, and on 

 the sandy dunes. These facts may interest Br. Areschoug. — W. 

 Whitman Bailey, Providence, R. I. 



Salix aurita x herbacea in E. Perth.— In July, 1892, I found 

 a queer little willow at about 1400 it., by the Lochsie, Glen Shee, 

 one parent of which was evidently 8. aurita ; it was without flowers 

 or fruit, and cuttings were sent home with a view to testing it. 

 After some hesitation, Dr. Buchanan White placed it under 8. 

 ambigua (aurita x repens) as a curious form, and I could see no 

 better solution, though the repens affinities seemed somewhat vague. 

 This year, however, my cuttings have howered, and both the cat- 

 kins ( J ) and the leaves conclusively prove ti. herbacea to be the 

 second parent. Mr. F. J. Hanbury at once suggested the true 

 origin, on seeing my dried specimens, a short time after they were 

 collected ; but the low elevation made me discard his suggestion 



having slender, tortuous, interlacing branches, and being almost 

 decumbent. Many of the leaves are roundish, and their texture 



grows is particularly rich in rare hybrids, including aurita x Lap- 

 ponum, Caprea x Lapponum, phylicijolia X repens, and Lapponum x 

 repens. The subject of this note is of peculiar interest, as Ben 

 Challum is its only recorded British locality, and it is unknown on 

 the Continent.— Edward S. Marshall. 



Dr. Kuntze's variety of Achyrodes aureum.— On page 758 of 

 the Revisio, its author describes a grass found by him on the 

 islands of Teneriffe and Palma, as a distinct variety of Achyrodes 

 aureum (L.) O. Ktze., under the name varteyatum. He states that 

 the normal form has a concolorous, pale greenish inflorescence, 

 while in his plants the bases of the glumes and palets are sub- 

 viohtceous, in a young state or always. Last year I collected 

 specimens of AcUtjr»<U-* aureum in the Santa Clara Valley, Cali- 

 fornia, all of which exhibited more or less purplish colouring at the 

 base of the palets, especially those of the sterile spikelets. This 

 tint, however, appears to be developed with age, being visible 

 throughout the panicles only at their maturity, and totally absent 

 from those which are just emerging from the sheath ; while 



