66 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



with a compound microscope! The gentleman who recently 

 revised the genus Allocarya, observes that "In several of the 

 groups, the species are not distinguishable by any evident 

 superficial characters" and adds that the collector has often 

 gathered several species, (presumably from the same colony), 

 under one number. Several of the "new species" have been 

 found only once. When one learns that the wrinkles and protu- 

 berances on the all-but-microscopic nutlets are the sole means 

 of identification it is easy to understand how the author is able 

 to "recognize" 79 species. The writer of this paragraph will 

 engage to make more than that number of new species out of 

 a quart of dried peas by using similar distinguishing marks 

 and he will guarantee that several of these will come true from 

 seed. However, if species can be made on the number and 

 color of the stamens in the hawthorns, there is no reason why 

 similar species may not be based on the reticulations of the 

 fruits in Allocarya — though it may be difficult to induce field 

 botanists to accept them. 



Proliferous Roses. — Last year, on an old rose-bush in 

 our yard, there were some six or seven stems bearing three 

 roses each, with about two inches of stem between each fllower. 

 The first one would be a perfect pink rose, the one above it 

 would have a green center and the top rose would be nearly 

 all green. Some would have just a touch of color. — Bessie 

 Bloom, Kankakee. III. [This is another illustration of the 

 fact that all parts of the flower are morphologically leaves. 

 In the green rose regularly off^ered for sale by nurserymen, the 

 petals have .'dl taken on leaf-like characters. The cause of 

 such proliferations is not well understood, but occurrences of 

 the kind are always worth recording. — Bd.'\ 



An Unknown Honeysuckle. — The illustration and 

 description of an unknown honeysuckle published in the 

 February number of this magazine has resulted in the dis- 



