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may be identified with some species of Algw, mostly with the 
commonest species and those most tenacious of life. 2. That 
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Magazine, this species is said to have been introduced into ceulti- 
vation in England by Mr. Henry of Hay Lodge, Edinburgh, “ who 
received the seeds from N.W. America, in lat. 44°, and flowered 
the plants he raised from them, in May, 1870;” and the fruit was 
produced in July last. Now this parallel of latitude crosses the 
northern part of Wyoming and the center of Idaho Territories, 
three or four degrees higher than that part of the Rocky Moun- 
tains, in Colorado Territory, in which this species has been col- 
“James,” who was at the Rocky Mountains only in 1822, ¥rom 
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0 pswich, etc., the plant was first raised in England (where we 
ao flowered several years ago) as well as in New Eng- 
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d far from “ delicious.” 
The natural explanation of its having been termed so by Dr. J mane 
S that, in his hurried rush for the mountains, in the too restricte 
“ime allowed him by Major Long, he was 80 nearly starved that 
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12. Spiranthes Romanzoviana.—This North American species 
te known in Europe only at a single station, on the southwestern 
shore of Ireland, Mr. 'T. Allin, in Trimen’s Journal of Botany for 
