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specimens of plants and insects sent by cor- 
respondents. Persons who have already sent 
or may hereafter send small collections of 
specimens to he named, will please inform 
us if any of the species sent are from other 
States than their own. Lists of species found 
in any particular locality are of especial inter- 
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distribution of species. But to make them 
of real value, it is requisite that we know for 
certain whether or not all the specimens in 
any particular list come from that particular 
locality, and if not, from what locality they 
do come. 
Ed. Valley Naturalist: 
Your valuable paper came to hand this 
morning. I would be much obliged if you 
would kindly name for me the oak sent by 
to-day's mail. A new species of Golaspis 
lives on this oak in Grand County, New 
Mexico, near the Gila Mines. C. F. Gissler, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 6th, 1878. 
Answer:— According to Dr. Engelmann, 
our greatest authority on American Oaks, 
the species sent is a variety of Quercus undu- 
lata, Torrey. The proteaii forms of this spe- 
cies have long puzzled the botanical student. 
In the Herbarium these forms appear dis- 
tinct enough, and botanists have even been 
let to devide them into several supposed spe- 
cies, based upon characters which prove very 
unreliable when brought to the test of an ex- 
tended series of specimens. In the valleys 
and mountain slopes, this oak usually has 
leaves 8 to 4 inches long and rather deeply 
lobed; on the poorer soil the leaves are about 
2 inches long, not lobed, but coursely den- 
tate, while in exceedingly rocky places, the 
leaves are only about 1 inch long, with a few 
spiny teeth. Dr. Engelmann, in a recent 
paper on this genus, says that " within the 
compass of a few hundred yards, we find not 
only the forms above distinquished, but 
numbers of others which are neither the one 
nor the other, but which are intermediate 
between them and clearly unite them all as 
forms of a single extremely polymorphous 
species." 
Ed. Valley Naturalist: 
Last season I observed for the first time 
the branching spikes of Tlantago mayor. 
The plants are rather dwarfed in appearance, 
leaves nearly acute, five ribbed, the spike us- 
ually having three branches. Are the plants 
found in this locality, the common type of 
the new form? To what is the change of 
form due. Respectfully yours, 
Rome, Pa., Jan. 20, '78. Lilian M. Ridgway. 
Answer:— You will find a series of notices 
of this variation in the Botanical Gazette, vol. 
II, pp. 45, 60, 135. The number of branches 
is by no means constant, varying from two 
to ten. We are unable to assign any reasons 
for this change of form, but think that in the 
majority of cases it will be found to be due 
to some injury to the young spikes. 
A. S. Van Winkle: on account of an ac- 
cumulation of articles, we were unable to 
publish your article on "Entomological 
Notes," in this -issue. 
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