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with six distinct glomerules below, the lowest of which is pedi- 
celled, the others sessile and merging into the terminal confluent 
portion. 
=G, BRITTON. 
Note on a Variety of Asteromphalus Roperianus. Grev. 
Asteromphalus Roperianus, Grev., var. Disc circular, com- 
partments areolated, truncate, nearly equal; umbilical lines ra- 
diate irregularly from rounded ends of median ones 3 rays six. 
The above described diatom, of which the figure is an exact 
drawing, was found by me in February of this year, in the original 
Santa Monica deposit. The specimen varies somewhat from 
Aster. Roperianus as figured by Greville, and later in Schmidt's 
Atlas, plate 38, fig. 15; having one ray less. Amplification 650 
diams. Zeiss 1-18 hom. immersion. 
E. A. SCHULTZE. 
Note on Abutilon striatum. 
I have at hand a specimen of Adbutilon striatum, in which 
there are two flowers borne on the peduncle instead of the usual 
one. From the joint of the peduncle downwards there is indica- 
tion of two separate axes which have become confluent. If this 
is so, how did the flowers escape fasciation ? 
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