BOTANY. 691 
L. Owen, of Springfield, Mass., and begins with a membership of 
about twenty ladies and gentlemen.— President, Prof. C. H. Hitch- 
cock, Hanover, N. H.; Vice President, Rev. H. G. Jesup, Am- 
herst, Mass. ; Berie. Mrs. M. L. Owen, Springfield, Mass. 
Various papers of interest were presented at the meeting by the 
President and other members; an account of recent explorations 
near the head waters of the Connecticut river was given by one 
who had just returned from that region; a number of rare plants 
were exhibited ; and work was planned for the coming year which 
promises valuable results. The society bespeaks the sympathy 
and cooperation of all the working botanists throughout the val- 
ley of the Connecticut river. — oi 
Hersarrum Parer.—The Naturalists’ Agency purpose keeping 
herbarium paper for sale, in small quantities, and taking orders 
for it in larger quantities ; both the white sheets for species, and 
genus covers, such as are used at the Gray Herbarium of Harvard 
University and by most of the principal botanists of the United 
‘States. Botanists and institutions now sending their orders 
for the white paper, for two reams or more, may be supplied 
at $5 per ream (unless the price of paper should meanwhile rise). 
Those who order after the first lot of paper is made will probably 
have to pay a higher price, as also will those who buy less than 
whole reams. The species paper sheets are 163 X 118 inches. 
Orders may also be sent for genus-covers. These are of Manilla 
paper, very thick, 164 X 24 inches, i.e. a foot wide when folded. 
The price will depend somewhat upon the extent of the orders 
received, but will probably be about $7 a ream. Orders should 
be sent without delay to the Naturalists’ Agency, Salem, Mass. 
LirHosPERMUM LONGIFLORUM ONLY L. ANGUSTIFOLIUM.— While 
collecting specimens of Lithospermum longiflorum Spreng., in fruit, 
I noticed that the plants were still producing small flowers. A 
gradual reduction could be easily traced, from the conspicuous 
early inflorescence of the erect stem, to the small corolla scarcely 
exceeding the calyx, borne by spreading branches later in the 
season. This summer state of the plant is clearly L. angustifo- 
lium Michx.! within the limits of our familiar flora of the northern 
states, therefore, we have not only two species, founded upon dif- 
ferent periods of growth of the same plant, but one of these has 
even been separated from Lithospermum and made the type of a 
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