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me specimens of this fern which she collected at '* Natural Bridge," 

 four miles from Sewanee, Tenn. E. S. Miller. 



February 13th, 



10. Leucanthemum vulgare, var. tubuliflorum. — The variety 



tubuliflorum^'Y^xiVity^ oi Leucanthemum vulgar e^ which was detected at 

 Poughkeepsie in 1867 by Miss Crockett of Vassar College, has made 

 its appearance in great abundance every year at the same locality 

 where it was first found, and from which it has never spread. The 

 ray flowers in this pretty variety are tubular, unilateral in varying 

 degrees, and 5-lobed like the disk flower, I have found in nearly 

 every instance that they possess two (rarely four) abortive stamens, 

 i, e., stamens destitute of pollen. Dr. Gray, in his Manual (ed. 

 1868, p. 686) says of this variety : " An abnormal state of the White 

 Weed, with the rays transformed into large and palmately or bilabi- 

 ately 5-lobed (rarely 3-4-lobed) tubular corollas." But have we 

 an instance of what we may really call " transformation ? " Should 

 not the pistillate ray flowers of the ordinary form of Leucanthemum 

 themselves be regarded as transformed marginal disk flowers, the 

 unilateral development of which has adapted them to assist, as Mr. 

 Darwin suggests, in the process of cross-fertilization by making the 

 plants more conspicuous to insects. And would it not be more 

 proper, then, to consider the tubular ray flowers of the variety not as 

 cases of " transformation/' but rather as instances of partial rever- 

 sionyhy the regaining of lost organs, to some ancient form of the 

 plant in which all of the flowers were tubular and perfect ? I have 

 a specimen of L, vulgare in which all the flowers — those of the disk 

 as well as those of the ray — are ligulate and pistillate ; and also a 

 garden specimen Chrysanthemum carinatum in which, through an 

 arrest of development, a large number of the disk flowers have lost 

 their stamens and their purple color, and have become partially ligu- 

 late. These two instances, which come under the head of what gard- 

 eners call "doubling," I should judge are examples of what might 

 be properly styled *' transformation." W. R. G. 



II. Suffolk County Plants. — I have the pleasure of adding the 

 following plants to the flora of Suffolk Co., L. I. 



Hypericum adpressum^ Barton, a few plants at the " Slough " on 

 the East Hampton and Sag Harbor turnpike. At the same station, 

 Habenaria ciliaris^ R., Br. I also found it at Springs. At this place 

 I found a Habenaria of a beautiful straw color, intermediate as it were 

 between H. ciliaris and H blephariglottis. I was unable to visit the 

 locality last year, so I cannot tell whether it is constant or not. H. 

 blephariglottis grew^ in the same locality. I found in Amigansette 

 Lilium Philadelphicum^ L., though only a few plants. I was told 

 that it grew plentifully on Montauk Point, though I did not observe 

 it that year (1878). Last year it was out of flower when I w^as there, 

 Mr. C. L. Allen discovered it in the woods near Wading River (1879) 

 while we were out riding. I think I have never reported finding Utric- 

 tilaria clandestina^ Nutt., at Manorville. This makes eleven species 

 of Utricularia found in Suffolk County. I found one plant of Coni- 

 um maculatunty L., in the yard around Clinton Academy, East 

 Hampton. Urtica urens^ L., grows sparingly in East Hampton, and 



