58 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1894. 



corolla, were now wholly iudependeat of* each other, and hypogyn- 

 ons. This is probably the first case of apetalisni recorded in 

 Labiatie. 



Fruiting of Robinia hispida. 



In descriptions of Robinia hinplda, no reference is made to 

 the legumes. In cultivation they are not known ever to be 

 fox'med. The writer has searched for them in his botanical collect- 

 ings in Tennessee without finding any, and it is a general belief that 

 they are rarely produced when the plant is growing either in a wild 

 or cultivated state. Mr. David F. Day of Buffalo, New York, 

 notices^ that the anthers are destitute of i)ollen in the flowers he ex- 

 amined from cultivated jilants in that region, a condition often 

 found, in most plants of Lafhynis (jramllfioi-us and some 

 other Leguminose plants. In an excursion around Linville, North 

 Carolina, in July 1893, Mr. C. F. Saunders of Philadelphia found a 

 number fruiting, some specimens of which have been deposited in the 

 Herbarium of the Academy, and in the Royal Herbarium at Kew. 



The Vitality of Seeds. 



Antirrhinum glcuidalo-^inn. Exact facts in regard to the power of 

 seeds short-lived under ordinaiy circumstances to retain vitality 

 when deeply imbedded in the earth, or under some other specific 

 ('i)nditions, are not numerous. Hence many controversies occur be- 

 tween the " practical man " who A;«o»w they will live an indefinite 

 time, and the man of " science," who as firmly believes they will not. 

 The writer of this has frequently been among the doubting ones, 

 simply because the facts adduced for long vital power, could bear 

 other interpretations. Ten years ago his friend, the late Dr. C. C. 

 Parry, gave him some California seeds. Antirrhinum glandalosum 

 was raised from them. The following year the plot was required for 

 buildings and covered with earth from the cellar several feet deep. 

 No j)lant of it has, to a certainty, been there since until this season, 

 when, the earth in one spot being turned up a few feet in depth, one 

 plant came up and flowered. 



Dimorphic Flowers in Labiatte. 



Dracocephtdiim nidaiis. — I have shown in various papers that a 

 tendency to dioecism is not uncommon in Ldhiattc. Another addition 



^Meehan's Monthly, TIT, p. 118. 



