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P. STUBELN, foliis quaternis brevissime petiolatis oblongo- 
spathulatis junioribus utrinque subtiliter retrorsum puberulis dein 
glabratis, nerviis 3 inconspicuis, pedunculis petiolos superantibus, 
bractea elliptico-orbiculari centro subsessili, ovario emerso apice 
imo stigma carnosulum gerente.. 
In Bolivia ad Yungas, bajada al Rio Chumunayo altitud. 1800 
m., Decembri florens (Stiibel n. 42 in h. Hieronymi). 
Verisimiliter erecta ramulis retrorsum puberulis circiter 4 
mill. crassis. Limbi basi cuneati apice rotundati, in sicco coria- 
cei albicantes opaci, ad 5 centim. longi ad 12 millim. lati. Petio- 
li vix 5 millim. longi. Amenta adhuc juvenilia densiflora, quam 
limbi breviora. 
Botanical Notes. 
Acer satcharinum, L. (Acer dasycarpum, Ehrh.) along the 
Passaic River in New Jersey.—Last September, while collecting 
along Dundee Lake, I found a maple, which, judging from the 
foliage, I took to be the above named species. The tree was 
srowing on a small island a few hundred feet from the Bergen 
County shore. In the New Jersey Catalogue this maple had 
only been reported from Sussex County and the Delaware Val- 
ley. Before reporting this new locality I desired to collect the 
fruit. This I did this spring. The tree proves to be what I first 
thought it was. I have since made a careful search, and have 
found a number of trees growing on the Passaic County side also. 
I reported the matter to Dr. Britton, and he replied, saying 
he had also found it growing in abundance along the Hacken- 
sack River last fall. If a search were made it would undoubtedly 
turn up in other parts of eastern New Jersey. 
3 ae GEo. V. NASH. 
CLIFTON, N. J., July 11, 1892. 
Interior Shoots in Potato Tubers.—One of my fellow profes- 
Sors gave me a good-sized potato the other day, which upon 
splitting open he had found to contain another of about the size 
ofa grape-shot. From this second proceeded a shoot of some 
length which again was contained within the original or mother 
tuber. My informant gave me to. understand that he had a 
number of similar potatoes. Explanations are in Orden, 
