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drance nor offer any insurmountable barrier to small, creeping ants, they yet 

 serve to divert such visitors from the flowers, and detain them from further 

 advance. I do not therefore hesitate to interpret all nectar-glands that are 

 found on leaves, as a means of protection against the unwelcome, because un- 

 profitable, visits of creeping insects." — J. J. Davis, Racine, Wis. 



One-leaved Strawberries. — The one-leaved strawberry, Fragaria mono- 

 phylla, L., is recognized as a variety only of P. vesca, L. If my memory serves 

 me truly, Duchesne refers to a one-leaved strawberry also. At the New York 

 Agricultural Experiment Station we have seedlings from the Bidwell and Man- 

 chester varieties, which show plants distinctly one-leaved, other plants with 

 petioles bearing one, two and three leaflets, and yet other plants of the normal 

 character. 



While speaking of strawberries let me call attention to what Miss Bird, 

 that interesting and accurate traveler, says in her " Unbeaten Tracks in Japan," 

 page 45 : " Lieut. Hawes gave us some strawberries, which have lately been 

 introduced, and they had a good flavor ; but people think they will soon lose it> 

 as other exotic fruits have o"one before them. A day or two ago we had some 

 fully ripe strawberries of a pale pea-green color, with a strong odor and flavor, 

 not of strawberries, hut of the Catawba grape." — E. Lewis Sturtevant. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Dr. C. C. Parrv is now residing at Davenport, Iowa. 



Dr. Oswald Heer ; of Zurich, Switzerland, the celebrated paleontologist, 

 and eminent authority on fossil botany, is dead. 



The Canadian Naturalist has been discontinued by the Nat. Hist- 

 Society of Montreal, which will at once begin the publication of its transac- 

 tions in a similar form. 



Dr. Gray points out in the Am. Jour. Sei. for October that the spelling 

 Speiranthes for the orchid-genus Spiranthes in Watson's "Contributions XI," is 

 purely accidental, although occurring six times besides in the index. 



It seems from the investigations of Julius Wortmann, given in the 

 Botanische Z> ilmirj, that radiant heat acts upon growing organs in a similar 

 manner to the action of light, producing positive and negative thermotropism- 



Prof. Lester F. Ward, of Washington, has recently collected a fine set. 

 of fossil plants in the valley of the Yellowstone, near Glendive, Montana. In 

 the number, perfection and rarity of the specimens, it is the best ever obtained 

 in the country. 



The Biological Laboratory of Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, 

 Ind., now nearly completed, will greatly facilitate the study of botany at that 

 institution, and is expected to give another center for the pursuit of original 

 investigation. The botanical portion consists of a laboratory for general and 

 one for special work ami the herbarium room. 



