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them are larger 3-toothed bracts. The bright berry with its 

 wide green coHar is very attractive. The fruit of our com- 

 mon species grows in l)unches, but here a single berry arises 

 on a long peduncle among the leaves. Its leaves and man- 

 ner of running over the ground is similar to our wild straw- 

 berr)'. The books call it yellow or Indian strawberry. It 

 is our only strawberry-like plant with yellow blossoms. It 

 has become^ naturalized near Philadelphia and in the Southern 

 States. Schuyler Matthews writes in "Familiar Flowers of 

 Field and Garden" that it is not common. He found it 

 once on Staten Island some years ago and has not seen it 

 since. The botanical name is Diichesnca indica in honor of 

 Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, a French botanist who mono- 

 graphed the genus Frag aria in the early days. — Nell Mc- 

 Murray. 



Green Rudbeckias. — A note in the, Botanist for De- 

 cember 1907 tells of mutating Rudbeckias one of which had 

 a green center. Dr. Beal suggested that this one should be 

 called a green-eyed Susan. Many somewhat similar appear- 

 ed near Sherborn, Mass., last summer and Mr. E. J. Smith 

 of that place writes "The common Rudbeckias around here 

 have been varying wonderfully. . Whole patches of them 

 would have bright pea-green rays. Other flowers would 

 have no rays but only the involucres which were enlarged to 

 look likef green rays and still others had in the middle a mass 

 of short green prominences instead of the usual cone. They 

 looked like green plush buttons about an inch in diameter." 

 — Nell McMiirray. 



Name of Flower Wanted. — I wonder if some one can 

 give me a better name for the old-fashioned garden flower 

 that we used to call cup-and-saucer. In a general way it re- 

 minds one of the primrose with its rosette of woolly leaves. 



