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Triarthra terminalis, Plate. 1 



A solitary specimen of this rotifer was found in sediment 

 of Dundee tap-water. It does not seem to have been hitherto 

 recorded in Britain, and, as Dr. Plate gives no figure, the 

 accompanying sketches may be of interest. I have unfortun- 

 ately no observations on its internal structure. 



Explanation of Plate VIII. 



Fig. I. Notops pygmtzus, n. sp. 

 I. a Dorsal view. 

 I. b Front view of trophi. 

 ,, II. Copeiis Elirenbergii, Gosse. 



II. a Head with expanded auricles. 

 II. b Head with outline of brain. 

 II. c Head in lateral view, with retracted auricles. 

 ,, III. Triarthra terminalis, Plate. 



III. a Outline of the same, in contracted state. 



a Antenna. Is Lumbar setae. 



br Brain. It Left lumbar tentacle. 



cv Contractile vesicle. ce (Esophagus. 



e Eye. ov Ovary. 



// Foot. rt Right lumbar tentacle. 



gg Gastric gland. t Toe. 



PISTILLODY OF THE STAMENS IN THE 

 "CHAMPION" POTATO 



By JAMES W. H. TRAIL, M.A., M.D., F.L.S. 



FOR several years I have observed every season that pistil- 

 lody of the stamens has been of very frequent occurrence in 

 fields of potatoes near Aberdeen ; and this year it has been 

 extremely common and well marked in numerous fields 

 within a radius of several miles. On inquiry I find that it 

 seems in all cases to be the " Champion " variety that shows 

 this curious sport in the flowers. Mr. Alexander Macdonald, 

 in reply to an inquiry whether he had observed this condi- 



1 Dr. L. Plate, " Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte der Rotatorien " Jenaische 

 Zeitsch. f. Nat. (Bd. xix. p. 19, 1885.) 



