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against the arching upper lip, while the stamens bend forward and 

 are introrse. The mouth ot the tube is so large, that no insects 

 smaller than the humble bees could have touched the pollen, and 

 numbers ot them were observed busily at work. The pollen was 

 so ripe and the stigmas apparently so immature, that it looked sus- 

 piciously like a case of proterandry, but as only the one condition 

 could be found, this was left as a mere suspicion. Perhaps other 

 observers have decided it. 



But for a fine illustration of cataleptic flowers let me com- 

 mend Physostegia to our teaching botanists. — J. M. C. 



MimulllS (leiltatus, Nutt. — Having until recently only a soli- 

 tary incomplete specimen of this, of Nuttall's collection, I referred 

 it with some doubt to the M. luteus, var. alpinus, in the Synoptical 

 Flora. But in June last, Mr. Rattan found a plant, exactly* like 

 NuttalVs, in Northern California, in the forests of Humboldt and 

 Del Norte counties, where it abounds. It is a good species, which 

 should stand, as I have stated, between M. luteus, var. alpinus and 

 M. moschatus, var. longijlorus, the calyx rather that of the latter, 

 and quite unlike that of the former. But now Mrs. Austin sends 

 from Lassan's Peak, a var. gracilis of the same, smaller in all its 

 parts, with leaves rather denticulate than dentate, and still more 

 approaching the long-flowered form of M. moschatus, but almost 

 glabrous.— A. Gray. 



Lililiaia borealis is found by Mrs. Anthony, of Gouverneur, 

 New York, occasionally to produce 3-flowered and 4-flowered pe- 

 duncles. In the four flowered specimens sent to us the axis of the 

 peduncle is continued beyond the fork for a short distance, and 

 then bears the additional pair of pedicels. Attention being thus 

 called to it, 1 find 4-flowered specimens in our herbarium, collected 

 long ago by the late Mr. Oakes. — A. Gray. 



Teratolooical Note. — I found a flower of Lathyrus palustris. 



L., having the ovary divided as far as the middle, having a style for 

 each division.* There were 14 stamens, one of which occupied the 

 usual position above the ovary while the rest were united; but the 

 free end of the filaments were separated into two lots, one of 7 

 and another of 6 to occupy respectively two keels perfect in shape 

 and distinct from one another. On the outer side of either keel 

 were attached slightly the two wings. The standard was very 

 broad. The calyx had the usual two small upper teeth, but there were 

 five instead of three longer teeth beneath. Those who have 

 studied this flower know that both sides of the keel are incurved 

 thus retaining the stamens while the hairy surface on the inner 

 side of the flat style carries out the, pollen, at the same time giving 

 to and receiving from the insects the pollen necessary for cross-fer- 

 tilization. All these arrangements were left uninjured by the 

 strange multiplication of parts.— A. F. Foerste, Dayton, 0. 



