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one of the cotyledons was split. In this generation fasciation was 

 absent, but in that of 18-)2 it reappeared in hirge numbers, 7 of 

 the 24 plants being fasciated. The seed for 1893 was chosen from 

 2 non-fasciated individuals, but which might have been pollinated 

 by fasciated plants. In that year 40 plants were obtained, more 

 than half of which had a fasciated inflorescence. The results of 

 this experiment were in short as follows : — 



1889. — 1st generation: 1 plant with fasciated inflorescence. 

 1890. — 2d generation : 1 fasciated plant in 50 individuals, 

 1891. — 3d generation : no fasciation. 

 1892. — 4th generation: 30 per cent fasciation. 

 1893. — 5th generation: over 50 per cent fasciation. 

 Intermittent fasciation was observed in 10 other species, wild or 

 cultivated. 



Repeated fasciation was observed in 13 species of perennial 

 plants and in 6 species of ligneous plants. 



These experiments, together with the fasciated varieties of com- 

 merce, such as Celosia cristata, Sedum reflexum monstruosum, Sedum 

 arboreura cristatum, the well-known monstrous Cacti, and shrubs 

 such as Sarabucus nigra fasciata, and Euonymus japonicus fasciatus, 

 seem to prove that fasciations are hereditary. — H. T. A. Hus. 



Parnassia Californica Greene: — In November of 1898 this 

 species was found by the writer on Mt. Tamalpais, Marin County, 

 growing in a springy place near the spot where the Azaleas are 

 always in bloom on the Bootjack trail. But one other locality is 

 known in the Coast Ranges of California, " mountains above New 

 Almadeu," J. B. Davy. — Alice Eastwood. 



NEWS NOTES AND CURRENT COMMENT. 



Dr. a. W. Chapman, the venerable southern botanist, author 

 of the well-known and widely-used Flora of the Southern United 

 States, died at his home in Florida in April. A biographical 

 sketch by Dr. Charles Mohr, of Mobile, Alabama, was published in 

 the June number of the Botanical Gazette. 



