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of the botany of the region immediately aroun ew York, 
Some of its brief articles are of more than local interest. For 
instance, Dr. Allen, in the first number, shows that the dwarf GZno- 
thera of Montauk Point, Long Island, is not @&. linearis, as has 
reyan Herbarium at Columbia College, and has special oversight 
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radicle, and thus has the longer turnto make, Cukile Amer 
Nutt., resembles Lepidiwm Virginicum in these particulars, exce 
that the ‘ 
_ WVasturtium, Cardamine, Arabis, Ba N 
Phanus, so far as represented in our local Flora; but in all those 
Statement as respects Lepidium Virginicum, and only wonder how 
this conformation has been overlooked. No. 3, for sass _ 
en received. - 
6. Notes relating to Vegetable Physiology, &e.—A part of the 
following memoranda are drawn from the last numbers of the 
Bullesin of the Botanical Society of France, especially its Revue 
Biographique, which is very faithfally edited. 
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