674 PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
ALSOLA KALI GROWING INLAND. — Every summer, for the last five 
years, on botanical: excursions, I have found at New wburgh (sixteen 
miles from this place) the Salsola peg ~~ quite abundantly on 
the Erie railroad near that city. orks on Botany that I have, 
designate this as a maritime ase T es no other habitat for it. 
Those specimens which grow most vigorously are found covering the 
side of an embankment (formed of dry, loose — facing the mea 
and consequently exposed to the scorching rays of the sun'all su 
The material in which the plants are rooted is not one from w ae I 
Should suppose that they could derive any of those saline matters that 
enter so largely into their composition. — W. R. GERARD. 
OBINIA HI The responses to the query in the November 
number about lido plant are unanimous, and direct to i point, that 
it is Ee and truly indigenous in the pine barrens of the low coun- 
n barren or rocky hill-tops of the upper country of the At- 
niir botiheri States. Dr. M. A. Curtis has fruiting specimens col- 
lected on the summit of Table Rock, North Carolina (a conclusive sta- 
non as to a. and thinks that it fruits in the lower country as 
well.— A. Gra 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.— 
NATURAL History SECTION. Burl rlington, Vt., August pe -26, 1867.— 
‘“ The Insect Fauna of the Summit of Mount PEAR as compared 
with that of Labrador.” By A. S. Packard, jr., M. D. The following 
notes are thrown together rather to give a summary, from data only 
approximately correct, of our present knowledge of the distribution of 
Alpine rctic Lepidoptera, than to give anything like a complete 
account. 
The summit of Mount Washington, or that portion lying above the 
limit of trees, agrees in its climate and other physical features very 
closely with those of bane mi of Northern Labrador, as observed at 
latitude 
Thes peletan soniai rare exactly, as the snow melts in the early 
summer, and ice is formed early in the autumn at about the same dates. 
_ As is well known, the Alpine flora of the White Mountains is iden- 
tical With that of the arctic regions, which extends far southward 
along the Atlantic shore of Labrador. Not only is the flora identical 
4 T duiiperies of plant is known to be restricted exclusively to 
Ss. p but the times ot Ue tomednns and fruit 
