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and spent several hours watching the bees. The woods were full of 
Dicentras this spring. He could not find a spike of any species on 
which there were not one or more punctured flowers. He saw 
several humble-bees performing this labor, and many honey-bees 
sucking the honey, but in no instance did he see the honey-bee make 
the incision." N. L, Brixton, 
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Teratology. — A head of the ox-eye daisy {Chrysanthemum leucan- 
themum, L.) has just been brought to me by a lady (Mrs. Cowles) 
Hving in Hamden which has the rays replaced by white tubular corollas 
one-quarter of an inch long, gradually anipliated outwards, and irreg- 
ularly 5-lobed. Most of these corollas are somewhat bilabiate, with 
three parts in the lower lip, and two, a little smaller, in the upper. 
The veins of the lobes are submarginal and unite below the sinuses, 
as ip the normal disc-flowers of the order. These ray-flowers have 
both stamens and a short, included style, like that of the disc-flowers. 
The ray-flowers are in general structure comparable to those of 
Chanactis, but there are no gradations from them to the disc-flowers 
in this specimen. Is this condition to be explained by a simple re- 
version of the usual rays to a form more like that of the disc- flowers, 
or by supposing the ray-flowers to be deficient, and the exterior disc- 
flowers to be enlarged so as to replace the rays ? One of these ex- 
terior flowers, which I dissected, had the ovule well developed, and it 
is probable that all would have been fertile. 
Mrs. Cowles tells me that the plant bore six heads like the one 
sent to me. 
New Haven, June, 1884. Daniel C. Eaton. 
Another Florida Fern has been lately discovered by Miss Mary 
C. Reynolds, viz., Phegopteris tetragona, Mett. This is one of the 
species which has sometimes the faintest rudiment of an indusuim, 
and so has been referred to Aspidium in Mettenius's later writmgs. It 
has a creeping rhizoma, and rather thin herbaceous and finely pube- 
scent fronds one or two feet high. These are pinnate with a gradually 
decreasing apex and several pairs of long and not very deeply pinna- 
tifid pinnce. The veins are simple, and the 2-3 basal ones are conni- 
vent as in Aspidium molle. It is common in the West Indies, and on 
the continent from Panama to Brazil. Miss Reynolds found it a 
year ago in a live-oak hummock in Marion County, well establishea 
there, and a very pretty fern it is, too." " When growing, there is a 
metallic lustre about it that to me is very pleasing." 
New Haven, June, 1884. Daniel C. Eaton. 
Albinism.— During the winter and spring I have found, usually 
single plants only, sometimes several clusters, of the following species 
^vuh pure white blossoms. The whole plant was of a hg^ter green 
than usual, no other color being present: Delphinium decorum^ l &M. 
(one specimen); Sidalcea humilis, Gray (fwo specimens K Erythrcea 
^piusta^ Gray (several clusters); Gilia dianthoides, Endl. (common 
•"places); Linaria Ca.W^«i/V, Dum.~(one case); OrtJ^carpus pur- 
Ptirascetis, Benth. (often nearlv white): Mirabilis Calif ormca, Gray 
