170 BOTANICAL NOTES. 



plants two feet to two and a half feet high were very 

 common. One specimen measured three feet and 

 nine inches in hight, with scape five inches in cir- 

 cumference, and spadi.x as large, and much resem- 

 bling an car of corn. No specimens at this locality 

 were as small as given by Wood (8'- 12') or Darby 

 (io'-i2'). Yet I could find no differences worthy of 

 note, except size, between this form and the de- 

 scribed species. 



Albinos are to be expected occasionally in many 

 species, so that recording them seems hardly neces- 

 sary, yet I will mention a few which came under my 

 notice the past Summer. Viola ciicnllata: on one 

 hillside a pure white variety had taken the place of 

 the more common "blue" variety. The centre of the 

 flower was of a delicate lemon-yellow, lateral petals 

 strongly bearded, leaves penciled with purple, other- 

 wise as the viola aicnllaia. Honstonia cccrnlca: white 

 specimens of this species were also common.' Dclplii- 

 niiun tricornc was occasionally found with white flow- 

 ers and this variety always had a many-flowered ra- 

 ceme. I think the flowers were one half as numerous 

 again as the ordinary form. Trifoliiim pratcnsc: 

 white heads were ccmmon everywhere. Phlox diva- 

 ricata was now and then found with white flowers, 

 also the variety of Wood, Phlox iMphamii, which, by 

 the way, does not seem to be a very constant variety, 

 as I have noted the same plant bearing flowers with 

 entire petals, and flowers with the "notched" petals. 

 All possible gradations between the two forms were 

 to be met with. 



A New Trillium. — During the past season a 

 very interesting variety of the Trilliitin was found 

 near Hanover Indiana, which is deserving of notice. 

 The Trilliinii is one of our most variable genera, 

 as I have already attempted to show, but the 



