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city. I do not know how long the flower remains blooming. 

 The specimens which I measured were gathered June 17 and 19. 

 The plant and flower grow larger in shady, moist places, as is 

 quite natural. 



A sketch of the flower is given in Fig. i, which also repre- 

 sents the same flower afl:er the successive removal of the petals 

 and sepals. The drawings were made from a flower of the 

 mid-styled form. 



In the one hundred specimens measured, twenty-one were 

 short-styled, twenty-five were long-styled, and fifty-four were 

 mid-styled. The correspondence between the ratio of measure- 

 ments and the proportionate numbers of the specimens of the dif- 

 ferent forms is noteworthy. 



The four Tables following give the result of the measurements 

 from the base of the flower, approximating accuracy to the tenth 

 of a millimeter. 



TABLE l. — Oxalis Suksdorji'i. 



MEASUREMENTS OF STAMENS AND PISTILS FROM LONG- STYLED FLOWERS. 



Flower Numbers. 



I 



2 



3 



4 



5 

 6 



7 

 S 



9 

 10 

 II 



12 

 13 



14 

 i^ 

 16 



17 



18 



19 

 20 



^3 



24 

 -5 



Pistils. 



II. 5 mm. 



"•3 

 II .1 

 10. o 

 10.0 



.0 



■ o 



•7 



•7 



•5 



■5 



•3 



o mm. 



3 " 



2 " 



5 ''• 



3 " 



