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estimated at from six to five hundred specimens in the fuller sets, a 
with smaller ones as low as two hundred species. Some of these | 
plants are new, many are rare, and indeed Oregon plants gene- : 
rally are scarce in all but the older herbaria of this country. So — 
that these specimens, generally very nice and complete ones, and i 
in limited quantity, are likely to be taken up at once. As Mr 
Hall may soon leave Illinois upon another exploration, applica- 
tion for these collections may be addressed to Mr. Charles Wright, 
Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge.— A Gray. 
Dispersion or Spores.— A. E. de Moravia mentions in “See — 
ence Gossip” a carrot-colored fungus (Peziza aurantia), about two — 
inches broad, which when blown upon emitted a dense €- ‘oud of 
spores, with a distinct ‘fizzing” sound. Its spores were i 
ranged in long tubes (asci) opening on the surface, but no ial 
springs or other means of emission could be detected. 
ZOOLOGY. 
Serpents WARMED BY a Lizarp.—In the same glass ¢ 
two horned frogs (Phrynosoma, and really not frogs at all b 
lizards), and two young serpents, the milk snake and the B 3 
ied snake, each about ten inches long; when the sunshine a 
the window-sill on which the case rested, the two serpents CoM 
themselves together under one of the lizards, and were con- 
pletely hidden by it, as if AEN pretection from the chill ait 
the evening. — Burr G. WILDER 
Frying Sprpers.—At Providence, R. I., Oct. 22, about 9 A. 1 : 
with the thermometer at 55° and a strong breeze from the sou" j 
saw numbers of small Lycosas run up the pickets of a fence ~ 
when near the top, raise themselves as high as possible by 84 ad 
ening their legs, and turning their abdomen upwards. Immedi per 
afterward some of them were blown off from the fence and 
away in a nearly horizontal direction. of the 
One, after leaving the fence, settled to within & poe tver 
ground, and then moved slowly northward horizontally about 
_ ty feet, where I lost sight of it. Another blew against int aa 
thread extending upward caught on my face. Four gsi ž 
ch long § 
ase were 
he spiders were about a sixth of an in 
were probably young. 
