14 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



"tea-leaves" and "tea berr}^" The bright red berries which, 

 with the thick shining leaves, remain upon the plant all win- 

 ter are responsible for "one-berry," chicken-berry," "part- 

 ridge-berry," "deer-berry," "ground-ljerr}," "creeping winter- 

 green," and "spring wintergreen." "Eye-berry" probably 

 alludes to the eye-like markings on the fruit made by the ca- 

 lyx. "Ivy-berry" may be a reference to the leaves but it may 

 also be a variant of "eye-berry." "Ivory-plum" has the same 

 derivation, probably. "Checkerberry," very frequently heard 

 in New England is of unknown origin but it is conjectured 

 somewhat doubtfully to have been originally "choker-berry." 

 If "proclam," "pippins," "jinks," "chinks," "drunkards" apd 

 "red pollom" are anything more than children's names for the 

 plant, I am at a loss to account for them and would welcome 

 suggestions. This is also another of the "kinnikiniks." 



Abundant Stomata. — A leaf of Urgines maritinia (sea 

 onion), 1320 millimeters long and 35 millimeters wide (the 

 width was found by eleven measurements 120 millimeters dis- 

 tant from each other), having therefore a surface of 46,200 

 square millimeters was examined for the number of stomata 

 it possessed. A small piece of its lower epidermis was put on 

 a slide and its size exactly measured. In a piece 16 millime- 

 ters square 80 stomata were found or' five in each square mil- 

 limeter. Multiplying the number of square centimeters in 

 the under surface of the leaf by five, we; find that there are 

 present in it no less than 231,000 stomata, an astonishing 

 number, indeed. It may be added that the upper side of the 

 same leaf showed a similar number of stomata. — Bdo Claas- 

 sen, Cevleland, Ohio. 



