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reached Yi inch beyond the free apex of the other side. From the prox- 

 imal end of the said contracted internode up the stem revealed unmistak- 

 ably its fasciated nature by deepening grooves, showing the stem to be a 

 bundle of peduncles, one after the other of which detached itself from 

 the bundle and carried each, bracts and a large white double flower. 

 These, too, showed a tendency to form multiple parts, more or less com- 

 pletely coalescent. 



As far as I have been able to ascertain, this is the first instance of 

 fasciation in tulips hitherto recorded. It is not unusual in many other 

 plants. Professor Schiibeler in his " Viridarium Norvegicum " (Chris- 

 tiania, 1886), Vol. I, page 413, enumerates forty-five species of wild or 

 cultivated plants in Norway in which he had observed banded habits 

 either in stem or root, and he quotes Olaus Borrich as the original author 

 (in 1673) of the term fasciatio for such phenomena observed by him in 

 four plants, which he named Geranium cohimbiyiiim fasciahim, Corona 

 imperial is fasciata, Hyssopus fasciata, and Afartago?i fasciaUim. To this 

 list I can add Ipoma:a batatas, which grew in my garden in Rock Island, 

 111., some years ago, with conspicuously banded vines. 



Cincinnati, Ohio. JOSUA LlNDAHI,. 



SOME SUMMER OBSERVATIONS. 



Late in the winter a severe ice storm damaged the woods for miles 

 around Baltimore, and in the early summer two or three severe wind 

 storms broke off hundreds of branches in addition, and uprooted many 

 trees. As a result the undergrowth received more than its usual supply 

 of light and many spots in the woods changed their botanical aspect to a 

 surprising degree. In the low woods the touch-me-nots (<,Ivipatiens^ and 

 nettles (6V/zVa spp.), richweed (^Collinso7iia) , and all those things have 

 been taller and more numerous than ever before within my memory. 

 The nettles are shoulder-high, and in one river-bottom the Impatiens 

 pallida is at least seven feet tall — nearly twice as large as usual. Near 

 the latter is a dense thicket of ragweed (^Ambrosia trijida^ with many 

 stalks ov-er an inch in diameter, and the slender, closely-packed stems 

 reaching, in at least one instance, the height of fifteen feet nine inches, 

 and others may have been taller. No estimate was made at the time, but 

 there must be, on the average, ten or twelve plants to the square foot. 

 It is only fair to say that this bottom was flooded three times when the 

 ice was breaking up, and this, combined with the effect of the storms, 

 caused the unusual growth. The dry spring, which was very hard on 

 corn and other crops, must have been a drawback to these weeds. 



The perusal of Warming's " Pflanzengeographie " prepared me for 

 the thick-leaved plants on the shore of Kent Island in the Chesapeake. 



