64 . BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



I notice in the October Bulletin that a correspondent found a white Lobelia syph- 

 ilitica. About a month ago I found one about two miles from our house. It was grow- 

 ing within two inclies of a plant with the flowers blue and was the onlj- one seen, 

 although the blue ones were plenty enough. A week after, in a damp plarc in an open 

 wood, I found two specimens growing close together witli pinkish flowers. 



A couple of years ago we found in the ea.st end of Cincinnati, along side of a rail- 

 road track, numbers of the Euphorbia marginata, seemingly perfectly naturalized. 

 This is recorded as a native of Nebraska, but has made its way east and established 

 itself. Last year it was abundant and this year also. — Joseph F. James, GmrirhnaM. 



I would like to send a few notes on some variations in plants, noticed at difterent 

 times, and in difl'ereut places. In 1872-3-4, I very frequentl}' found Pidygmium am- 

 phibium with salver form stipules. The var. terrcstrc especially showed this 

 feature. Sometimes I found it growing on high, dry, sandy soil, (piitc hairy with rust 

 colored pul)esccnce. I also found P. Careyi with salver form stii)uk's. I wrote to 

 Prof Gray, but could not learn that he had ever seen this featurr. The p:isi season I 

 found the same variation in the var. terresfre of P. amphibmni. around Bloomfleld, 

 Conn. I also found P. arf/i^^ww; in several localities with salver form stipules. From 

 this it Mould .seem as if the whole of this genus might, under certain circumstances, 

 present this singular feature. One form of Polygon nin, very frequent in southern Iowa 

 I have never seen noticed, though it ma_y have been. When young, the leaves luid the 

 color and the woolly pubescence of a (Jnaphaliviii, but when old the leaves more re- 

 semble those ot Axter serkeus in their silky api)earanue Often there were dark trian- 

 gular patches on the young leaves. The plant was from four to five feet high, but I 

 never was fortiuiate enough to find it in bloom except once, and the blossom was some- 

 what like P. aiiqjJu'biuiii. It generally grew on rather low ground. 



Perhaps the white Eupatoriutn Jititulo.-nun is not so rare as some other f(jrms, but 1 

 have found several specimens the past season. Also the Eupafori)'/// purpuveiun with 

 opposite leaves, in several localities. Last year I found E. perfoliatuni v{\W\ leaves in 

 threes, and also with purple flowers. This year I have found a great numy specimens 

 with purple flowers, and in the.se cases the stem was often purple. 



I have several times noticed the feature, referred toby one of yoiu- correspondents, in 

 Verba scum Thap.ni.i, and also in Lappa major. The "wavy" apearan(;e in the leaves of 

 young ])lantsof the mullein is very common. I found a veiy remarkable Hieracium 

 last fall." It was ayoung plant, growing in a cleft of a trap rock. The oldei- leaves were 

 thin and veiny, not much unlike those of //. renosum, L., but more hairy and nearly 

 oval, but the younger ones were like the young leaves of Verbascuia ThapftuK. i.'xcii\yt 

 they tapered into a short petiole. There seemed to be a regular gradation in the trans- 

 ition. Can any one give a little light on the sttbject of these variations ? — N. Coleman, 

 BloomfieM, Conn. 



I find the seed vessels of StapIiyUa trifolia three, fV)iu' ;ind flv(--celled in the same 

 cluster and u]ion the same tree. Gray and Wood giye the seed vessels /JAree-celled with- 

 ottt exception, bttt ttpon quite a large tree for the iS'to/)/jy/r'a I find them usually four- 

 celled. Has any one else noticed the same? 



Is it usual for the bud of I'rillminrerrmiirii to be orrrf till nenrly the time of flow- 

 ering? I have found several erect at first, afterward the bu(i (luite inclined, then the 

 flower hanging under the leaves. — C. C. H., Pougkkeepsie, JV. Y. 



PoLYMNiA Canadensis, L., var. discoidea. — This is only the late-flowering state of 

 the species, judging from a i)lant in my garden, which bore the ordinary flowers with 

 rays early in the season, but in September branched extensively and [iroduced an 

 abundance of discoid heads. — P., Oquawka III. 



