Mr. T. S. Gold, West Cornwall, Conn., kindly corrects as follows : " Did you copy an error or was it a slip of the pen when you speak of the ' common Burdock' as 'Rumex?' The Burdock is Lappa and widely different from the common docks, which are evidently referred to as food for the 'garden web-worm,' page 182, in notice of this worm taken from Prof. Riley's Report on Entomology, which I have not at hand. Doing our best it is hard to keep these common names unmixed, but this is an appropriate and widely recognized name.

"This first day of summer finds vegetation well advanced and everything promising".

[It is evidently a slip of the pen on the part of Prof. Riley, who no doubt intended simply Dock, when he wrote Burdock. The Burdock with its incurved prickly burrs which the children stick together in large masses is well known under this common name. - Ed. G. M].