1 NOTE AND COMMENT 



Wanted. — Short notes of interest to the general botanist 

 are always in demand for this department. Our readers are 

 invited to make this the place of publication for their shorter 

 botanical items. The magazine is issued as soon as possible 

 after the 10th of February, May, August and November. 



Water Storage in Plants. — A large number of species 

 representing a score of the great natural orders of plants 

 exhibit a strongly developed capacity for the storage and re- 

 tention of surplus water in specially developed tissues of the 

 stem, root, branches or leaves. While this feature is exhibited 

 most abundantly by plants of arid regions in which the rain- 

 fall comes within a brief season, yet it is found in a goodly 

 number in moist tropical jungles and caution in designating it 

 as a direct adaptation seems desirable. Before much progress 

 can be made in the analysis of the storage function it wall be 

 necessary to come at the chemical mechanisms by which it is 

 made possible together with the environmental forces which 

 incite or inhibit it. — Dr. D. T. MacDoiigal in Plant World. 



Color Variations in Plants. — A number of articles 

 and notes on color variations have appeared in this magazine 

 and the titles are given below. The numbers following the 

 titles refer to the volume and page^ the volume number be- 

 ing separated from the page number by a colon. Correlation 

 of color 8:115, 10:16. The colors of Northern flowers 8:41, 

 color changes in individual flowers 7 :83, color of the meadow 

 lily 9:54, 76, 92. Albino flowers 3:115, white flowers 9 :,S4, 

 Warning colors of flowers 11 :118, crimson-eyed swamp 

 mallow 11:90. The white marsh mallow 7:95. Variation in 



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