FIELD AND FOREST. 



Field Record. 



Erythronium albidum, Nutt., has been discovered in great abund- 

 ance on the upper end of High Island. It differs from E. americanum 

 not only in its beautiful white perianth, but in its more slender, grace- 

 ful habit, its three-cleft stigmata, and its leaves which are paler, quite 

 differently blotched, and sometimes almostj glaucous, and destitute of 

 the glossy surface of the other species, looking as if it had been var- 

 nished, so that in beds of either species, it is quite easy to pick out in- 

 dividuals of the other by the leaves alone. — J. W. Chickering, Jr. 



First specimens of the cabbage butterfly, Pieris rapce, were observed 

 April 27th which is much later than last year. A specimen of the Col- 

 orado potato beetle, Doryphora \o-lineata, was taken upon the wing 

 May 12th, in the city, and a week later they were reported in numbers 

 in the neighboring counties of Maryland and Virginia. They should 

 not be allowed to spread. Large numbers of the museum-pest, Anthre- 

 niis varius, were found in the beetle state upon the flowers of Spirea 

 about the the same date in one of the public gardens. — C. R. D. 



It appears from letters received from Kansas, that the late, cold win- 

 ter has had no effect in killing out the grasshopper plague, as it has been 

 thought by many that the vitality of the eggs was destroyed and they 

 would not hatch out in the spring. In a recent letter from Leaven- 

 worth, the writer states that the grasshoppers are hatching out by the 

 "thousands of millions," and in some places the ground is black with 

 them. — G. 



The Botanical section of the Club is desirous of collecting all acces- 

 sible information relating to the early investigators of the botany of the 

 District of Columbia, including the members of the old Washington 

 Botanical Society, and the compilers of the Flora Columbiana. The 

 details wanted refer to the localities they visited, the species of rare 

 plants they claim to have found, the books they consulted and their 

 general biography. 



