NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 495 
Sylvania last summer, my friend, Professor H. J. Clark (whose acute 
original observations I have frequently had to record), showed me 
Several clusters of well-grown fruits of Podophyllum, of three or four 
I thi 
pect now and then a similar monstrosity in Jeffersonia ; and the mat- 
ter has a certain a bataile interest beyond the mere curiosity of the 
thing. — A. Gra 
Invasions of Foreign Plants.—The prepotency of foreign plants over 
Shan vitsin, especially in the New World, in sie ealand, 
Australia, st has of late ATR attention and remark. That 
en 
bles them to conquer new worlds wherever they get a foothold. 
Somehow or other these plants do seem, in this respect of prepotency, 
to take oe the particular human race whose footsteps westward 
they fol 
=a rats are suggested by a recent instance of the sort, on 
the part of a Chinese or Japanese leguminous plant, Lespedera striata 
Hook. and Arn., which has got an introduction, nobody can tell how, 
into the interior of Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, and is now 
multiplying at a wonderful rate. I first received it a year ago, but 
fessor Darby informs me that he detected it about ten years ago, 
at the railroad station in Altoona, Georgia, and he has lately met with 
it in all the adjacent States. ‘Now,’ he adds, “it covers thousands 
[native] Helenium tenuifolium took possession. Now, thi à der 
conque h.” The newspapers have lately mentioned 
that “a new , of the nature of a clover,” has widely ap in 
forage plant, as it well may be, this intruder, which takes such a 
liking to the poor soil of the South, will prove a real blessing to the 
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