382 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
its sterile frond. The smallest divisions of the sterile frond "- a few 
of = changed to fertile clusters. In this connection I w 
tha maller, delicate form of B. lanceolatum Angstrém, em the 
steri - ae less dissected, appears to me a decided variety. I have 
collectea both forms on Lake Superior. 
e remarks in the February number on Onoclea sensibilis var. obtusi- 
lobata Torr., lead me to say that this variety was found by me some sea- 
se 
essentially from mine, in which some of the segments of the pinne are 
much contracted and revolute, though most of them preserve the folia- 
ceous character, particularly at and towards the summit of the frond. 
Intermediate states and partially developed forms would naturally be ex- 
th 
would add the following, since aikoo to my list: Cirsium muticuti 
Michx., abundant in 1868, and the rare Arethusa bulbosa Linn., and Calop- 
ogon pulchellus R. Seni in former years.— HENRY GILLMAN, Detroit. 
DOUBLE THALICTRUM ANEMONOIDES. — Enclosed is the photograph of à 
double flower of the Thalic irum anemonoides Michx. I found it in the 
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pistil was transformed, so that the flower was completely double; and 
both for its exceeding and exquisite beauty, and the rarity of a double 
natural flower, I had its picture taken. — M. M. SHATTUCK, Poughkeepsie. 
BoraNicAL NorEs.— The mention of certain species in your botanical 
notes has reminded me of an individual of Trillium erythrocarpum gath- 
ered here, having the parts in fours, viz.: four leaves, four sepals, four 
ixty 
boreal or high northern (ranging by Lake Superior to the Arctic Gisele 
ànd sixteen western or continental nea rare or wanting in the Uni 
ted States, east of New York. —G. F. MATTHEWS, St. John, N. B. 
Is LDER A Native PLANT?— Looking over the NATURALIST for 
March, Lr I find that an enquiry has been made whether Sambucus Can- 
a native plant. If the question is not already settled it may not 
be useless to state, even at this day, that both that and S. pubens, or theif 
_ Western representatives, are common in esie Territory and Ore- 
. Son, and that one of them, if not both, extend as far South at least as 
Humboldt Bay, where I have seen a tree as large round a8 asa 
GIBBS, New York. — 




