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not produceany. It was naturally with some trepidation that it 
was determined to be this plant, as its habitat is given by Chapman, 
in his “ Flora of the Southern States” to be from Florida to N: 
Carolina, and from there to Staten Island seemed a very extensive 
jump for the plant to take, without any intermediate locality from 
which it could have spread. Within the past six weeks, however, 
we have received specimens from the neighborhood of Trenton, N: 
J., which is a little more encouraging. It is well also to bear in 
mind that the place which this southern plant secured from its 
home so far north is just such a one as we would expect, namely, a 
perennial spring, which never freezes and in fact which maintains a 
constant temperature throughout the year of about 53°. So far as 
known, it failed to secure a foothold at any other locality on the 
Island, and the specimens which are now in our herbaria are pro 
ably the only ones which will ever be seen from here, as the spring 
as become silted up and all signs of life obliterated. ! 
I was interested to find the following note in Dr. Torrey’s 
monograph on the Cyperaceee of N. America, p. 815-16: “ Among 
my undetermined Cyperacez is a species of Eleocharis from the 
Southern States, which I have never been able to obtain with 
mature fruit. * * * * The spike is ovate. and compressed, but 
instead of producing flowers it throws out a tuft of long filiform 
peduncles or rather culms, one from the axil of each scale, which 
strike root into the mud or float on the surface of the water and 
likewise bear proliferous spikes. * * * * I am inclined to consider 
this species as distinct from any other described in this monograph. 
It may be distinguished by the name of E. prolifera.” , 
Again, in the Columbia College Herbarium, accompanying a 
specimen labeled Æ. prolifera, is a note by Dr. Torrey, which reads: 
“ This may be a state of my Chetocyperus baldwinnii and the plant 
referred to in Baldwin’s notes. * * * *” 2 
Careful comparisons have been made between our specimens and 
those in the Columbia College Herbarium, under the names Heleo- 
charis baldwinii Torr. and H. prolifera Torr., but our material is 
too imperfect to definitely determine just where it belongs. e 
specimens, while showing the general characteristics of the above- 
mentioned species differ in having a stiff jointed woody rachis, 
along which the spikes are arranged alternately, and at the summit 
of which they are closely appressed into a somewhat. imbricated 
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stolons which bear the proliferous spikes at irregular intervals. 
Mr. L. P. Gratacap presented a nest of the Baltimore Oriole, 
suspended from the branches of acherry tree. One side of the nest 
had 1 been supported by means of strands of worsted attached to a 
branch considerably above the main support, acting in the nature of 
a guy rope to steady the structure. 
