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After securing, near the top, specimens of the pine [I'lmfs Coulteri) 
which had attracted our attention we returned to the ranch, having 
walked about twenty miles in ten hours in the hot sun — repaid by 
over twenty interesting plants. During our return we found Poly- 
carpon depressuvi; Nutt., Monardella linoides, Gray, and others, near 
Palm Valley, over one hundred species, two or more new, on the 
whole trip of eight days. 
San Diego, Cal. 
C. R. Orcutt. 
Pinus Banksiana, Lamb.— This tree appears to considerably ex- 
ceed the size given for it in our manuals of botany. Dr. Gray gives 
"^ "" " ' " ' ' ' Wood 
It as 
as " 
a small tree"; Prof. Sargent, in his Catalogue of the Forest 
Trees of North America, says: "a low shrub or tree, rarely exceed- 
ing 20 feet in height." The Abbe Provancher's Essences Ligneuses 
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^ ..^^tv.-L,v4, iii juij/, iiiaiiy Liccb in Liie vicmuy 01 Marquette, iviicn , 
which were at least 70 feet high, rising straight up from a base over 
one foot in diameter 
N. L. Brixton. 
Clematis Viprna, var. coccinea. 
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year, on a trip to Chattanooga, I was fortunate enouHi to find on the 
Side of Lookout Mountain, above the line of the Chatt. &Nash. R.R., 
They were strong and 
two plants of Clematis Viorjw, var. coccinea 
healthy and growing and blooming freely. It was a matter of aston- 
ishment to find here a species which has not, I believe, beeii before 
recorded east of Texas. The two known localities there are Austin 
and New Braunfels ; and it is interesting to now find the form so fai" 
away from the only place where it has hitherto been found. 
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Abnormal Cotyledons in Ipomsea.-l find in my garden a seed- 
ling of the morning-glory, Ipomcea purpurea, with what 
appears to be a supplemcnHfy cotyledon. The con- 
dition IS better described by saying that one cotyledon 
IS perfect, but that the other consists of two which are 
connate to near the middle. This is as if the plantlet 
had started with three cotyledons. The abnormal one 
has, in consequence, a triply retuse apex. The accom- 
panying figure shows the condition. 
Masters says, that " fusion frequently accompanies 
an increase m the number of cotyledons," and attributes 
the phenomenon, at least in some cases, to chorisis or 
to a cleavage of the original cotyledon. The venation 
in my own example would indicate the fusion of the 
two originally distinct leaves 
Providence, R. I. 
W. W. Bailey. 
