NELUMBIUM LUTEUM IN MICHIGAN .- In volume one, number four, Mr. Frank H.
Tuthill, of Kalamazoo, says, "this plant is found 14 miles south of this place (Kalamazoo), and this, I believe, is its only station in our State where it flowers. It grows in a
mill-pond, and hence must have been introduced after the country was settled." Two
or three years ago, I received flowers and leaves which were said to have been taken
from a natural pond called Indian Lake, situated some twelve miles south-east of Kalamazoo, or about eight miles south of Galesburgh. I have lately received a card from
Mr. H. Dale Adams of the latter place, who speaks of the locality called Indian Lake.
He also speaks of the mill-pond. Mrs. Adams once lived near this mill-pond, made in
1829. She thinks there was then a natural pond (now a part of the mill-pond), in which
grew the Nelumbium. This plant is now found on one or more islands in the Detroit
river, where an effort was made a few years ago to introduce it, though in some parts of
the river it may be indigenous. It is quite abundant at Monroe, where it was known to
the Indians a long time ago. It is plenty in the Maumee river in Toledo, Ohio .- W.
J. BEAL, Agricul. College, Lansing, Mich.