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May 14, 190f)] 0^7-^ [/ 



Un the tail of another specimen of Tracho- . ^-L ' ^ 0 ^ ' 



^w, irom the American Museum Cope Col- i^yC..C^P't,<4yt><J^'Ct^^-t^.<^ ^^t^4^^U^'rv't..<^ 



is thrown into diagonal folds, but seems to 

 preserve some of the muscular contour. 



lection the entire epidermis is covered with ( ,^ 



flattened scales of larger size, nearly a eenti- G^-t^-t/V-t^ ^g^^^Ci^ C^-C^ . 

 meter m diameter. ^ ' ^ ' 



This disposition of the scales into the ^^C^li^^-t^ 

 arger pavement groups and smaller tubercu- ^S^T^"^ 



unique, 

 per- 



il! any lacertilian ; it appears to be un 

 In a second paper the longitudinal and per- 

 pendicular arrangement of the clusters will 

 be more fully made out. 



Mr. Sternberg has added another of his im- 

 portant contributions to science through the 

 fortunate discovery of this unique specimen, 

 m a geologic region which was very generally 

 considered as thoroughly prospected out. 



Henry Fairfield Osborn 



BOTANICAL XO'J'Efi 

 SHORT NOTES 



In the March number of the Journal of 

 Botany R. F. Rand begins his altogether 

 interesting "Wayfaring Notes in Rhodesia" 

 which remind one of the notes made by the 

 traveling botanists of a century or so ago. 

 Here one finds moi-phological, ecological, tax- 

 onomic and critical notes delightfully com- 

 mingled. 



Akin to the foregoing are the notes on 

 -fc-nghsh plants made by Matthew Dodsworth 

 a seventeenth century botanist, now first pub- 

 lished in the Journal of Botany for March 

 by the editor. It is interesting to note such 

 names as "Wild Williams" (for Lychni, flos- 

 cucuh) and "Woodbind" (for Woodbine) 

 A couple of letters to Plukenet are dated 1680 

 and 1681. 



