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adjectives to describe its growth in Alabama, where it can be 

 collected by the wagon load anywhere along the Alabama river 

 from Mobile to Montgomery, a distance of three hundred and 

 fifty miles. It is also extremely common along the limestone 

 banks of the creeks in which that State abounds. 



While on the subject of Prof. Small's Flora, the writer per- 

 haps may be allowed to express his opinion that for a volume 

 which professes to give the " known distribution " of the plants 

 of -the Southern States, it is rather disappointing from the point 

 of view of Louisiana. While perhaps it was not to be ex- 

 pected that every plant known to occur in Louisiana should be 

 credited to the State, it certainly is remarkable that such a 

 plant for instance as Piaropus crassipcs, the water hyacinth, 

 which for about fifteen years has choked up nearly every water- 

 course in Louisiana and on the extermination of which large 

 sums of money have been spent, should be assigned only to 

 Florida and tropical America. This is only given as one in- 

 stance out of very many which the writer proposes to give on 

 a more suitable occasion. 



New Orleans, La. 



[The editor found A. capillus-vcneris growing in the mortar 

 between the bricks in old graves in Girod cemetery, New Or- 

 leans. In such positions it could surely not have been planted, 

 for it rooted in such narrow crevices that the plants could 

 scarcely be dislodged with a knife. The caretaker of the cem- 

 etery stated that the fern grew naturally, thought it is doubt- 

 less favored by those interested in the graves, since it forms a 

 most beautiful and delicate covering for the ugly bricks and 

 mortar. The point we would make is this : The plant thrives in 

 locations where it has not been planted, and therefore should be 

 considered a naturalized plant, just as is its companion, Pteris 

 longi folia. That A. capillus-vcneris has ever been found native 

 in Louisiana, is, as Mr. Cocks observes, open to doubt, but that 

 it is sparingly naturalized seems fairly proven. — Ed.] 



— From the Warren County (Ky.) Courier we learn that 

 the herbarium and sketches of the late Miss S. F. Price have 

 been deposited at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. 



