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Botanical Notes 



Note on Viola p 



In connection with the statement 



bv Mr. A. J. Foerste, on 



conceruuiy idii-nwvvv-iiwj, - 



page 267 of the October number of the BULLKHN, it may be 

 Leresting to note the oceurrenee of these late lowers mF^. 



In this vicinity a small dump of plants of this 



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species has been flowering with more or less perfect and conspi- 

 cuous flowers at irregular intervals tl-^^g^-^^^^^^^^"^""" J;; 

 day (Oct. 17th) I have noticed one of the last of these flowe s^ 

 It is about one-third the size of the early flowers with color and 

 veining distinct. The upper petals are, however, aborted to mere 

 rudiments, while the lateral petals are reduced in size m propor- 

 tion to that of the lower petal, and project in line with the sepals, 

 rather than expand. All this agrees well with Mr. Foerste s 

 statement above referred to. EDWARD L. RAND. 



Stellaria hmnifusa, Rottb. On a visit to Little Cranberry 

 Island, south of Mount Desert Island, Me., in August last, while 

 crossing a salt marsh my attention was drawn by the vivid green 

 of a few clumps of a Caryophyllaceous plant of a low and com- 

 pact growth, with ovate, sessile and fleshy leaves. Examination 

 showed it to be the species above named. This loca ity is, I 

 believe, the most southern one yet recorded. It is an inhabitant 

 of the arctic seas, frequently occurring on the coast of Labrador. 

 Pringle collected It on the south shore of the St. Lawrence one hun- 

 red miles below Quebec (BULLETIN, VI, 366). Macoun quotes it 

 from Anticosti Island, and from wet, boggy places o^ shoje of 

 Lake Mistassini; other observers have seen it, though rarely m 

 New Brunswick. Prof. Goodale collected it on the northern border 

 of Maine on the St. John's, and now we find it on the coast of 



^/r • • 1 f .^° TC' J- H. REDFIELD. 



Maine in lat. 44 15 • J 



Reviews of Foreign Literature. 



The Encasing of Protoplasm in reference to the Function of the 



Nucleus 



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of the Vienna Academy of Science, in which some pecuhar 

 cellulose growths are studied in regard to their probable connec- 

 tion with the action of the nucleus. Klebs succeeded in dividing 



