I have a goodyera which was brought to me in the winter of 1888-9 from the woods, its bright evergreen leaves, curiously netted with white, having attracted attention from contrast with its gloomy surroundings. As a quantity of the leaf-mould was brought with it, I had no difficulty in reconciling it to its new home, and it has been a source of real pleasure to me the winter through.

Last year I noted with interest the way in which each new leaf came out, apparently growing from the center of the last one, in a manner quite different from the growth of anything else I had ever seen. The leaves are all radical, so when I at last discovered a slender stalk pushing up from the center of the plant, I hailed it as a token of blossoms. I watched its growth with increasing interest, as the woolly peduncle stretched higher and higher, putting out occasionally a tiny green bract the promise o f buds being at last realized in a dense spike about an inch and a half long, the buds on which began to burst into bloom shortly before the middle of June.

It grew very slowly.

There were 42 buds and flowers alternating with each other upon the downy spike. They also were somewhat pubescent, a characteristic which serves to designate my species, together with the fact that my plant bears its flowers quite around the spike, while the other two species bear theirs only on one side. Mine is the Goodyera pubescens, a curious and interesting plant. The tiny white flowers showed their orchidaceous characteristics. The upper sepals and petals were vaulted, the two lower sepals surrounding the globular lip with its short recurved tip. The anthers were borne on a filament attached to the back of the column. By the aid of a glass I could see that the pollen grains were angular in form.

The books put the time for the flowering of this species as far advanced in the season as July or August, but mine came into bloom on June 13. Perhaps cultivation hastened its maturity, the botanist may say. However that may be, I am quite well satisfied with the pleasant results of my care. - Susie E. Kennedy, R. J.

The Medbola or Indian Cucumber-Root described on page 420, in the July issue of the Garden, is an attractive plant of rich woods which merits greater attention than it has yet received. Wild flowers are quite as interesting from their curiousness as from the beauty of their flowers, and the cucumber-root belongs to this class. It is a slender perennial herb, one of the lily family, ranging from New England to Minnesota and southward.

Fig. 3. Lithospermum canescens. (Red Root; Puccoon ; Indian Paint).

The Spotted Wintergreen, Chima-* phila maculata, is another plant of peculiar interest which is not generally known (Fig. 4). It is a low herb, inhabiting deep woods throughout the states east of the Mississippi, although it nowhere appears to be common. The flowering period in the north is in June and July. It is one of the heath family, and is closely related to the true wintergreen or checkerberry. The flowers are white or rose-white, borne two to five together on the slender peduncle. The leaves are dark glossy green, with conspicuous white variegations, and they persist through t h e winter. Another species, Chim-aphila u m b e 11at a , known as prince's pine and pipsissewa grows in dryer open woods and banks.