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Faponica are, accurately speaking, either latero-terminal or latero- 
axillary, the terminal and axillary positions, strictly. so-called, be- 
ing pre-empted, as it were, by the leaf-buds. Of course the actual 
bud development falls far short of the possible. Theoretically, a 
twig of five leaves might produce twelve flowers. The closest 
approach to this in the forty or fifty plants examined was six’ 
flower-buds on a twig with three leaves, the lower axil being 
vacant. The commonest case consisted of the terminal leaf-bud 
and one of its lateral flower-buds, together with a leaf-bud in one 
or two of the axils. The uppermost leaf is close to the end of 
the twig, and when the flower-bud is developed opposite this leaf, 
with the terminal leaf-bud between the two, the exact appearance 
is produced of a strictly terminal flower and an axillary leaf-bud 
designed to produce a sympodial continuation of the stem. This 
appearance vanishes when the flower-bud stands next the leaf, 
and when both the latero-terminal flower-buds are developed the 
true state of the case begins to be seen. The additional develop- 
ment of a leaf-bud and two lateral flower-buds in the upper axil, 
producing an apparently terminal cluster of two leaf-buds and 
four flower-buds, throws still further light on the matter. The 
partial or complete development of similar triplets of buds in 
some of the lower axils, and the discovery of undeveloped bud- 
germs in places where buds theoretically belonged but failed to 
appear, served to complete the chain of evidence in favor of the 
view I have advanced. Ey Ei STERNS. 
A Method of Drying Plants with little Loss of Color. 
The press used for drying plants is composed of two cast-iron 
Ce 3 
plates 12% by 21 inches, % of an inch thick, and weighs about 
32 pounds. Each plate has two hundred holes in it, % an inch 
