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affords no end of delight. Well niaytlie plant be esteemed 

 a favorite in all our cities. 



Brown University. I'invirlence, A'. /. 



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CREAM-COLORED JEWEL-WEEDS. 



BY H. C. WOODWARD. 



^HILE on a botanizing excursion on August 4, 1904, 

 along the Paupack River about three miles from 

 Ha\vle\% Pa., we found the jewel-weed (Impatiens) grow- 

 ing" most beautifully along the banks, and soon after we 

 had started in our boat, one of our number saw a white 

 flower on the bank and we pulled into the shore to exam- 

 ine it. The plant proved to l)e the yellow jewel-weed 

 {Impatiens pallida) iDut this flower was creamy- w^hite 

 mottled with a delicate shade of violet with some parts 

 mottled with ^-ellow. We all pronounced it a freak or 

 sport and went on our wa3' up the river, but had gone 

 only about a mile when I saw a bunch of the same colored 

 flowers growing upon the bank. We rowed to shore and 

 examined it and found it to be the same to all appearances 

 as the 3'ellow variety but with cream-colored flowers 

 mottled with violet and yellow or more often with only 

 yellow mottles and often with the upper lip which turns 

 back being a bright pink. 



There was not only one plant but scores of them, and 

 as we proceeded further, we saw a place where there was 

 a colony of those white flowers, perhaps twenty feet long,, 

 with no yellow blossoms among them. This was in an 

 open spot where the sun shone on them nearly all day, and 

 just above was alot of the yellow variety growing just the 

 same height and fully as perfect in every wa^^ 



We sent fresh specimens to a man who is considered 

 the best of authoritv and he reports that "he has not 

 heard of anything like this before and suggests trving the 

 seed to see what sort of a flower it will produce another 

 year." 



Now has any of the readers of The American Botan- 

 ist ever found this species in any color except ^-ellow ? If 



