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N. Nuttalliz ; and this, which a fearless critic might call a bit of 
scientific iniquity, has been adopted and made his own by each 
American author who has, since Bentham’s time, handled the 
Eriogonez, as all our books and catalogues will show. 
CHANACTIS SANTOLINOIDES, Greene, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 
ix., 17 (1882); Gray, Syn. FI. i., part 2, p. 341 (1884). 
This plant has little bibliography, but more than is given it 
in the Synoptical Flora, where the author of the work says in 
effect, that it was, up to that date, unpublished. It had been 
described two and a half years before, in the February number of 
this journal for that year. 
Note on Mollugo verticillata, L. 
“« Stamens, five; sometimes three or ten; filaments setace- 
ous, shorter than and opposite to the sepals.”” The above from 
Wood; and further, in the detail, he notes: ‘Stamens mostly 
three,’ 
One can understand that there ought to be five or ten, the 
rest being suppressed. I have made it a point to look at some 
in passing every few days the past season, and there have al- 
ways been but three, except in one case four. I find, however, 
that “stamens opposite the sepals” applies to only two, the 
other one of the three being uniformly alternate with the sepals. 
Assuming that the normal stamens should be in a whorl of five, 
this alternate stamen should belong to a second whorl of five. 
In cases where there is a double whorl of stamens, as in six- 
stamened monocotyledons, there is usually some difference be- 
tween the inner and outer whorl—if it be only a little difference 
in the time of maturity of the anthers. In these three stamens I 
see no difference, which is remarkable if they really belong to 
different whorls. 
It is interesting to note how well the arrangements are 
adapted to self-fertilization. The filaments are tightly appressed 
to the ovarium, and curve over at the apex, pressing the anther 
down on the stigmas. After the expansion of the flower the 
anthers remain in this position. The pollen is ejected from the 
anther cells simultaneously with the See of the sepals, cov- 
ering the stigmas. 
