NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY“ 611 
from conclusive, and he drew conclusions hastily. It was quite pos- 
sible that certain fungi might occur constantly in substances of a certain 
chemical and molecular constitution; but this might be a case of effect 
instead of cause, 
~The recent researches of Mr. Herbert Spencer had shown by the intro- 















not only ascends by the vascular tissue of plants, but that the same tissue 
turns and distributes the sap after it has been modified in the leaves. — 
rly Journal of sce London. i 
= species or well marked varieties. The others diminish pretty regularly 
to the last, which has but six hundred and thirty seven (637) species. My 
oney 
was gold and silver, but I am willing to take the same amount now in 
The larger sets give a very fair idea of the Cuban flora, and 
àre fuller than any other collection of Cuban plants except three, — that 
of the Herbarium at Cambridge, Mass., that of the Kew Gardens, sat 
land, and one belonging to Mr. Sauvalle, of Havana. —CHARLES W 
Cambridge, Mass. 
plants in the NATU- 
s.—I observe frequent notices of 
ns of a 
: BOTANICAL NOTES 
RALIST which produce white flowers. I have collected specime 
ad occidentalis s.t Has Myozurus minimus ever bee 
sylvania, in the United States? I collect it here at Belleville.§ —JOUN 
Macoun, Belleville, Canada. 
ef botanical notes would be welcome to the NATURALIST, and we 
print the most useful. — Eps. ] 
HeraTica TRILOBA.—Some authors speak of a variety with fre 
ves. Now I think the five-lobed leaves are not the true leaves, pa 
ower buds have some of the r cultivation, 
pl 
h as I send you) with five 
the five-lobed leaves iste 
true leaves afte 
the flowers of the other bunches, and the 
out simultaneous with the leaves of the flowering plants. 
of the Cardinal flower. [ think I never 
rd sel the Miciatas A. G. 
ee he - advena, See 
Se this and the ordinary N. luteu = of Rept Se reen 
of Botany, revised edition, page 57.—A. @ rows ‘vermont. See 
this R. “pig lis, with white or amber cotared berries? G ; = ; 
Mannal, page 15 Europe. — A. G. 
The farthest east wasi if wild. It may have come direct from 
