{ June, 
My Hepaticas.—One of the interesting things for the botanist 
or the gardener to do at this time of year, is to remove to some 
spot in his garden a few of the most attractive wild plants which 
abound in our woods, swamps and fields. Last year, I remove 
some plants of blood-root, tooth-wort, spring beauty, phlox, 
squirrel corn, several species of violets and several varieties of 
hepaticas. ese are near the house and are a constant source 
of delight to the children, visitors, members of the household, 
and I hardly need add to the person who transplanted the flowers. 
These were removed as they were found with a little earth about 
the roots. 
Two or three plants of the hepatica were chosen for the pure 
white of their flowers, others for their delicate pink color, others 
for the large size of their flowers, others for the deep blue of the 
flowers ; still others were selected for their double flowers. This 
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a full exposure of the bright sun. Here are ferns and grasses, 
some shrubs and some of the most interesting hardy wil 
plants. It is a favorite spot for all who live at the College — W. 
F. Beal, Michigan Agricultural College. 
Botanicat Nores.—The Botanical Gazette for April, contains, 
among other articles, bryological notes by C. H. Austin ; new spe- 
cies of Colorado fungi, by C. H. Peck; late Rhode Island flowers, 
by W. W. Bailey ; Coniferæ of the Crestines, by T. S. Brandegee. 
The bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for March contains de- 
scriptions of new species of North American Uredinei, and an m- 
teresting table showing the dates when the leaves fall, by N. L. 
ritton, who states that “the female in dicecious plants appears 
to hold its foliage longer than the male.” Caruel’s New Botanical 
Journal (Italy x, No. 2), contains an article on the floral structure 
and affinities of various monocotyledonous families. 
In the Quarterly Fournal of Microscopical Science are two 1M- 
portant papers, one by S. H. Vines, on Researches into the Nature 
of Lichens, and a very important paper, well illustrated, by J- 
Ewart, on the life history of Bacillus anthracis. 
ZOÖLOGY.! 
HELIX CHILHOWEENSIS Lewis.—I have lately had the pleasur 
after a pedestrian excursion of nearly one hundred miles, na 
the roughest of mountain roads, to collect this rare species 1n ! 
normal habitat. 
1 The departments of Ornithology and Mammalogy are conducted by Dr. ELLIOTT 
Coves, U. S. A. ? 
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