Cocculus Carolinianus

A botanical friend kindly calls our attention to a slip of the pen in the editoral note under Mrs. Thomson's article on page 36. The word should of course have been dioecious, not monoecious, when describing a plant having separate sexes on different ones.

Gabriel's Trumpet

This is the common name of the Datura arborea, a well-known plant, allied to the Stramonium, and popular on account of its sweet white flowers. The flowers are truly trumpet-shaped in some certain sense, but if the one in the hands of the statue that ornaments the entrance to some cemeteries, is an exact representation of the one owned by the original of the statue, we can scarcely trace a great resemblance.

Wood Laurel And Mountain Laurel

Mrs. Amanda B. Harris has recently published some very readable and instructive papers of a literary character on "Wild Flowers." She says Kalmia latifolia is the Mountain laurel and is only to be found in mountain regions. She has evidently been misled by a misapplication of the name. Mountain laurel is usually confined to the Rhododendron which does generally grow in mountain regions. Kalmia is "Wood laurel," and grows at low as well as greater altitudes.

Live Seeds

Last year a number of seedsmen advertised that they sold "reliable" seeds; another has gone further and advertises "live" seeds. We do not know whether this is patented.

Suel Foster

We learn from the Country Gentleman, that this enthusiastic western horticulturist died in January. He was born at Hillsboro, N. H., August 29th, 1811, and moved to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1837.

Decease Of Some New York Horticulturists

From Mr. Barry's address before the Western New York Horticultural Society, we learn for the first time, of the decease recently, of Thomas Wright, Dr. Farley and Josiah Salter; all with more or less of a national reputation, and all worthy gentlemen to whom successful horticulture in America owes much.

Drugs And Medicines Of North America

By J. N. and C. G. Lloyd, Cincinnati. The June number of this excellent serial is devoted to the Magnoliaceae; and the tulip tree, as one of the order, is exhaustively treated, as well as its neighbors, the true magnolias.

No. 8 of Vol. I, is devoted to a full account of all that relates to the Black Snakeroot, or Cicimifuga racemosa.

The Botanical Gazette

This magazine, through which the leading botanists of the country communicate their thoughts and discoveries, has been considerably enlarged, and will, no doubt, receive increased patronage. Dr. John M. Coulter with Professors Barnes and Arthur as his assistants, still continues chief editor. It is published at Crawfordsville, Indiana, at $2 a year.