A Cocoanut in Flower.

Mr. F. P. Gay '97, has just presented to the Botanical Museum an interesting specimen of the flowering cluster of cocoanut, collected by him this summer in Jamaica. On the cluster which is still tightly packed inits firm sheath, there are many unopened buds, a few blossoms widely open, and some young fruits no larger than horse-chestnuts.

In the same exhibition room the curator has just placed a beautiful cluster of the flowers of the snow-plant of the Sierras. It was given to the Museum by Mr. O. B. Henshaw, who obtained it this summer in Eastern California. Much of the brilliant red color of the plant has been lost, but the from is perfectly preserved. The plant receives its name from occurrence near or sometimes in the snow of the higher western mountains.