1877.] Botany. 175 
33. Mycororum (Flot.), Nyl. 
pycnocarpum, Nyl. Killingworth; /. W. H. 
34. Acotium (Fée.), De Not. 
tigillare (Ach.), D. N. Wallingford; A. Barron. 
35. CALICIUM, Pers., Fr. 
subtile, Fr. On old boards and fence rails. Killingworth; F. 
WA. . 
36. ENDOCARPON, Hedw., Fr. 
miniatum (L.) Scher., and var. complicatum, Scher., and var. 
aquaticúm, Scher. On submerged stones in rivulets; also on 
damp exposed rocks. 
37. TRYPETHELIUM, Spreng., Nyl. 
virens, Zuckerm. Wallingford; A. Barron. 
88. PYRENULA (Ach.), Naeg., and Hepp. 
1. punctiformis (Ach.), Naeg. On trunks of trees. Killingworth ; 
WH. 
2. nitida, Ach. On trunks of trees. Wallingford, A. Barron ; Kill- 
ingworth, F. W. H. — F. W. HALL. 
Mıxors New Exncranp BIRDS; ADDITIONS. — In my late work 
on New England Birds, by carelessly overlooking one of my own memo- 
randa, I omitted mention of the Swallow-tailed Kite (Wauclerus forfica- 
tus), once seen near Whately, Mass., of the melanistic Swainson’s Buz- 
zard (Buteo Swainsoni, insignatus), captured in Massachusetts, and of 
the Arkansas Flycatcher ( Tyrannus verticalis) recorded from Plympton 
Me, Helminthophaga pinus is a summer resident at Saybrook, Conn. 
(Purdie.) December 1876.— H. D. Mor. 
Laree Trunks or KALMIA LATIFOLIA. — It is well known that this 
Kalmia attains its maximum size in the southern Alleghanies. Prob- 
ably nothing upon record exceeds or even equals the following measure- 
ments of the girth of two trees which grow, along with others not very 
much smaller, in the bottom of a dell back of Cæsars Head, on the ex- 
treme western border of South Carolina. One trunk, at a foot or so 
from the ground,measured four feet one and a quarter inches in cir- 
cumference, and, rising without division, maintains a size approaching 
this and gradually lessening, for six or seven feet. 
_ Another trunk measured three feet four inches in girth above the first 
limb or fork ; below it, at nearly one foot from the ground, it measured 
four feet and four inches. The measurements were taken September 2, 
1876, by Dr. George Engelmann, William M. Canby, and Asa Gray. 
Tue PRODUCTION or STARCH IN CHLOROPHYLL-GRANULES.— 
“ohm asserts that if light is sufficiently intense to induce assimilation in 
green leaves, it has the power to cause an immediate transfer of starch 
from the stem, where elaborated matters may be stored, to the chloro- 
Phyll-granules, For this reason he believes that many observations hith- 
erto made in.regard to the immediate production of starch from carbonic 
