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at Santa Cruz. The trees are in a forest around the head-waters 

 of the stream. One of them eclipses all that have been discovered 

 on the Pacific Coast. Its circumference as high as a man can. 

 reach, .standing and passing a tape line around, is a few inches 

 less than one hundred and fifty feet. This is beyond the measure- 

 ment of any of the Sequoias (gigantea) in the' Calaveras Grove. 

 The height is estimated at one hundred and sixty feet, and a part 

 of the top lying on the ground riven off by lightning, or a 

 tornado, is over one hundred feet in length. The other trees in 

 the vicinity are not as large, but all are of immense girth. Dr. 

 Saxe promised to get information more in detail from the Pres- 

 ident of a flume company in that section. 



This region has but recently been explored, and what other 

 marvels of vegetation it contains, remains to be seen. The 

 stumps of redwood trees of immense proportions, have been re- 

 ported, from time to time, to the Academy, by explorers in the Mt. 

 Diable range along the hills back of Oakland, but now we are 

 likely to have further discoveries of these majestic conifers in all 

 their glory, height, diameter and foliage. — R. E. C. S. 



Sullivantia Ohionis, Toit. & Gray.— I have just been col- 

 lecting a large quantity of this rare and beautiful little plant. 

 It grows in great abundance about four miles from the college, in 

 a dark, well-wooded ravine, known as "Clifty Ravine." It is 

 found clinging to the damp limestone cliffs just above Clifty Falls, 

 and is rapidly spreading down the ravine. It is a charming little 

 plant and is invariably found with its roots buried in a bunch of 

 damp moss, as if to prove to us that it belongs to Dr. Sullivant 

 and loves what he did. In the description, as given in Gray's 

 Manual, there is omitted one character which is always the first 

 one to attract the attention, even of the casual observer. Upon 

 slmwin-- fresh specimens to persons 1 have never failed to hear 

 the exclamation, " what pretty shiny leaves !" And it is a fact, 

 for there is always a beautiful gloss upon the leaves as if covered 

 with a fine coat of varnish. Clifty Falls, Jefferson Co., Ind., must 

 now be added to Highland Co., Ohio, and the Wisconsin river. 

 —John M. Coulter, Hanover College, Hanover, Ind., July 21st. 



Puccini a malvaceaeum, has probably been for many years in 

 the United States. Some thirty years ago I found the hollyhock 

 in all old gardens where it used to self-sow, annually, and take 



