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erable abundance in a meadow not far from the lake of Dublin, N. Hi, 
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of October last, says that there were fifty or more in blossom then, and 
although having been noticed there for three or four years ne do not 
seem to have attracted any attention previously.— J. L. R., Sale 
THR DOUBLE SAXIFRAGE found in Danvers, Mass., three years ago, and 
mentioned in the November number of the AMERICAN NATURAI IST, Was a 
fortunate ‘‘find” of John H. Sears, of that town, an ardent and enthusias- 
Jlora, and for many Sahar aa 
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all full-double and very ATN were brought me while eslit at ` 
teemed friend, the late Thomas G. Lee, as early as 1834; and on submit- 
ting the plant to a generous “ena in five years’ time it produced full- 
. double blossoms.” —J. L. R., Salem 
EDATA occurs here in two varieties not esata | in Gray’s 
variety is rare. I have only found it once or twice. I have also seen 
Pogonia ophioglossoides purely white. Plantago prisilla occurs here, à 
little east of its range (Gray’s Manual, page 269). Arisema phage oc- 
casionally has its leaves 5-7, and more, parted.— W. P. BOLLES, New 
ndon. 
T BOTANICAL DISCOVERIES. — Mr. Berkeley opened the proceed- 
ings of Te Botanical Section of SRE British Association, with a remark- 
ably interesting address. He. directed his remarks, first, to recent 
researches and specu alèio ons in Cryptogamic Botany, on which he is 80 
well qualified to speak judicially, and then to the theory of ranae 
He alluded to the observations of DeBary and Cienkowski on organisms 
which appear to be intermediate between plants and animals, SU ae 
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as to the fungoid origin of certain diseases. At first Hallier had mere 
observed fungi in Asiatic cholera, but recently he had stated e! ja 
typhus, typhoid, and measles (in the blood), in variola and in vacciD 5 
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did not consider that Hallier had proved 1 his case; his experiments we 

