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Botanic Gardens at Cambridge, which proved quite curious in its way. 

 In addition to the regular labellum a second one had begun to be 

 formed from the lower left-hand sepal.. Exactly half of the slipper 

 was formed and that was the half next the proper labellum. Every- 

 thing on that side was perfect, even to the polished inflected edge and 

 ])urple color, while the other half was as though no change had taken 

 ])lace, having an entire edge and the usual white and purple stripes. 

 —J. M. C. 



Parallel Chorisis in the Petals of Campanula media, L. — Mr. W. 

 W. Bailey called my attention recently to a specimen of Campanula 

 media^ grown in the Harvard Botanic Gardens, in which there were 

 two perfect corolla tubes. The tubes were entirely distinct to their 

 very insertion ;ind no difference could be noticed in their appearance, 

 one being just as tyj)ical as the other. That this was a case of ])aral- 

 lel chorisis rather than doubling was apparent from the fact that all 

 the other whorls w^ere perfectly normal. Such result might be pro- 

 duced by an al)normal growth of the androecium, which is really cor- 

 olla-like at its insertion, but the stamens were unchanged. — J. M. C. 



A 4-:MERors Lilium Philadelphicum. — A sjiecimen of this species 

 has just been pressed in the Harvard Herbarium which has 4 sepals, 

 4 petals, 8 stamens and 4 carpels. Such monstrosities, overleaping 

 the arbitrary barriers of Systematists, are useful to show that nature 

 <loes not run bounding walls and insurmountable barriers even be- 

 tween her types. — J. M. C. 



Two-parted Cotyledons in P]schscholtzia. — In examining the de- 

 velopment of the embryo in a garden setting of EschschoUzza Califor- 

 iiira, I found in every seed examined, ten in number, that the cotyle- 

 dons were completely parted, so much so in some cases as to give the 

 appearance of four cotyledons. Thinking that this might be a gener- 

 ic character other species were examined, /i. iiiiuutifiora., Watson, and 

 some of the so-called varieties of E. Californica-, but either the seeds 

 were too immature or this character does not hold good, for in those 

 which were maturing embr^^os no trace of the parting could be found. 

 We are led then to the conclusion tliat this form was merely a sport, 

 and there is no reason why a leaf should not be parted. — J. M. C. 



