ENIR SEE N TLES E TOLPE E i E EE PEE EEE STEE al E ED AUTE a 
1878.] - Botany. 5I 
Descriptive eae of Photographs of North American Indians. By W. H. 
Jackson. Washington, 1877. Miscellaneous Publications, No. 9, of the U. S. Geo- 
ree Survey a the Territories; F. V. Hayden in charge. Washington,D.C. 8°, 
pp. 124. 
Paleontological —_ No. 26. On some New or Little Known Reptiles and 
Fishes of the Cretaceous No. 3, of Kansas. By E. D. Sopa: (Read before the 
American Philosophical Society, August 17, 1877.) 8°, pp. 20 
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GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY. 
Š Nores on THE ALPINE Fora oF Mr. Suasta—While looking 
for’ insects on the crater cone of Mt. Shasta, in Northern Califor- 
-nia, late in August, I hastily picked up examples of all the plants 
I could find at and above timber line, and at the lower edge of the 
limits of perpetual snow, which is said on this peak to be about 
gooo feet above the sea. I was struck, though not a botanist, 
with the radical difference between the alpine (?) flora of Mt. Shasta 
and that of the Rocky Mountains and the White Mountains and the 
Alps of Switzerland. In the case of Mt. Shasta, which forms the 
northern terminus of the Sierra Nevada, the flora seemed much 
less alpine in its nature than was expected, and appeared to have 
been of local derivation from the foothills and plains below. I 
am indebted to Mr. Sereno Watson for naming the phenogams, 
to Prof. W. G. Farlow, for fence bes the lichens, while Mr. 
Booth kindly named the Carex. No distinctive alpine insects oc- 
curred, only a wingless focust, fes was also found lower down 
among the firs. =A S Packard, 
Phænogams — Silene grayi Watton (ized.) (in flower); Sari- 
Jraga tolmiei T. & G. (in flower); Applopappus bloomert Gray (in 
flower) ; Senecio aureus var. borealis (in flower); Penstemon men- 
Cares Booth. 
Lichens da oie chlorophana, Lecanora rubina var. opaca ? 
Lecanora glaucoma? Umbilicaria rugifera Nyl., 
PRODUCTION OF APPLES IN “oFF” YEARS—We have been in- 
ane by Mr. Elbridge Gerry, of Marblehead, Mass., that some 
-five years ago the foreman of the Pickman Farm, in Salem, 
- cant crops of apples in the “off” year, z. e., the year they usually 
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