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should be reddened. Mr. Bates wrote it reddened, but some- 

 body blundered, in which ease we always blame it on the 

 printer. 



Podophyllum Peltatum Polycarpum. — Mr. O. M. 

 Schantz reports that while botanizing near Willi w Springs, 

 Cook County, Illinois, last fall, he found a May-apple with 

 eight fruits. This seems to be the record for the number of 

 fruits on a single plant. Willow Springs is a few miles from 

 Palos where the type specimen was found. Apparently the 

 form is not rare in the general region. 



Odor of Amelanchier. — Referring to the ill-scented 

 form of Amelanchier mentioned in the May number of this 

 magazine, Miss S. F. Sanborn writes that she has again visited 

 the locality for the plants and finds that they belong to Amel- 

 anchier oblongifolia. The ill-scented form is described as hav- 

 ing straggling flowers with petals longer and narrower than 

 in the type and the young leaves appear to be rather more 

 heavily covered with tomentum. The flowers do not merely 

 have an unpleasant odor, but smell disagreeably. In a trip of 

 some miles across the sandy plains, sometimes one and s ime- 

 times the other form was found, showing that the odor is not 

 confined to a single clump of plants. It is quite possible that 

 a more extended study would show characters upon which a 

 new form should be made. 



