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course, such differences in the very earliest period as differences in mode 
and place of origin implies. The seedling, taking its rise from the 
ovary, manifests by its atavistic traits a youthfulness and freshness of 
life, a lack of well-formed character, and yet a racial stability. In 
plants originating from a quite different organ — and, in cases, tissue 
— of the plant-body, we find an equal rejuvenescence and equal ad- 
herence to hereditary tendencies. This seems to offer little support to a 
theory of distinct and localized germ-plasm. 
NorTH EASTON. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 10. — Fig. 1-4, Drosera binata. Fig. 5, D. filiformis. 
Fig. 6, D. rotundifolia. 
THE LOCAL FLORAS OF NEW ENGLAND. 
Mary A. Day. 
(Continued from page 196.) , 
RHODE ISLAND. 
General works : — 
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Hist. Soc. 1884-85, pp. 87-89 ; 1885-86, pp. 13-15; 1886— 
87, pp. 32-35; 1887-88, p. 24. Annot. catalog. phaenog. 
N.H. ! 
214. Bailey, William Whitman. Amonc RHODE ISLAND WILD 
FLOWERS. Providence, 1895, pp. 105. Select. spec., popular 
treatm. PAaenog. 
ed. 2, 1896. 
SOME NOTES ON THE FLORA OF RHODE IsLaND. Proc. New- 
port Nat. Hist. Soc. 1885-86, pp. 3-12. Select. spec., popu- 
lar treatm. jfAaenog. N.H. 
215. 
216. Bennett, James Lawrence. PLANTS or RHODE ISLAND, BEING 
AN ENUMERATION OF PLANTS GROWING WITHOUT CULTIVATION IN 
THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND. Providence, 1888, pp. 128. 
Annot. catalog. phaenog. and cryptog. 
217. Briggs, Samuel Arnold. A CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS A LIST 
or RHODE ISLAND DIATOMACEE. The Lens, ii. 1873, pp. 
161—163. Select. spec., popular treatm. cryptog. 
218. Collins, James Franklin. NOTES ON THE RHODE ISLAND FLORA. 
Bull. Torr. Club, xx. 1893, pp. 240-243. Select. spec., 
technic. treatm. phaenos. 
