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of much the most marked and showy variety of the above species which! a 
ever saw, and which, being in cultivation, requires a name. may as 
well be named Var. coronata, the Crowned Mountain Laurel. The corolla 
is white, except a broad crown of dark crimson, continuous, but some 4 
what blotchy, which occupies the whole inside of the the 
pouches up to near the margin, which again is clear white. A single — 
shrub of this was accidentally discovered two years ago, in bloom ins 4 
wood near Framingham, by Mr. James Parker, but was destroyed by fire, 
the ground having been accidentally burned over. But a branch, given tù — 
Mr. Power, was preserved by grafting upon the ordinary form of the spe 
cies. From this graft, which has now blossomed, it is hoped that this — 
beautiful variety may be abundantly propagated. — A. GRAY. 
A WHITE CHOKE-CHERRY.— There is a variety of Choke-cherry (Pram 
Virginiana) bearing white fruit occasionally found about here. Is it 
ound in other places?—D. W. C. CHALLIS. 

ZOOLOGY. : 
SHORE-COLLECTING ABOUT New York.—Thinking that some of m q 
New England readers, who are of course lovers of Natural History, WOW! 
be likely to pay a visit to New York, and would be glad to know vine 
factories, ete.; and this explains why it is so difficult to art a 
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of course who have neither time nor inclination to walk a great 
in search of them, nor much money to purchase them. alge. 
Suppose a stranger in New York who would like to collect shells, 
high-water. He will immediately notice that the geologi hores 
i i England jee ae 
S somewhat different to what it is on many of the New ns nouldet> 
being all of the drift formation, — no rocks in place, —all loose aturil 

aquaria full of actinias, algæ, and- mollusks in a state of prU a M 
may find many shallow pools where many very interesting 
