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Note on Viola palmata. In the June number of the BULLETIN 

 Dr. Northrop has a note on this species, regarding the irregular- 

 ity of some of its forms. Its constant abnormal features offer a 

 broad field of observation, for its botanical characters are certain- 

 ly eminent for a constant irregularity. I have this season met 

 with some remarkable ones, especially in the forma striata, which 



confirms me in the description I wrote several years ago, as 

 follows : 



Viola palmata, forma striata (streaked or spotted violet.) 

 Four to eight inches high. Leaf cordate, frequently uniform, 

 early ones entire, crenate, purple below near the base and gla- 

 brous, later ones becoming more and more clothed with hairs and 

 taking on a lobed form as the season advances, or as the plant 

 creeps up dry hillsides from damp and lower grounds. Flowers 

 few or many, pure white, marked with purple lines or striae, some- 

 times sprinkled with purple dots or splashed with large irregular 

 or ragged purple spots, but the lines are always present. Petals 

 vary much as to size and form, even in the same plant, sometimes 

 one or more becomes greatly enlarged, other times one does 

 not fully develop and remains dwarfed. Frequently the margins 

 are irregularly cut, toothed or fringed, later flowers cleistogamous. 



Sparingly near Freehold and in the northeastern part of New 

 Jersey, Staten Island, and frequent in the vales and on the gneissic 

 hillsides of Westchester County, N. Y. 



I called this form striata, unwisely, perhaps, inasmuch as 

 there is a species by that name. But the strice are constant, and 

 it seems to be the only stable character it has, and is therefore 

 eminently expressive. O. R. WiLLlS. 



Gaylussacia resinosa, var. leucocarpa. In a recent number of 

 Garden and Forest there is a note to the effect that plants of 

 white fruited Gaylussacia resinosa, sent to the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum last year by Mr. B. W. Westbrook, of Montague, N. ]., bore 

 a small quantity of fruit this season. It is yellowish-white with 

 a pale crimson tinge on the side exposed to the sun. It is 

 sweeter than the normally colored fruit. 



A proposed neiv Genus of Cyperacece. In the "Botanisches 

 Centralblatt," xxxix. 73, Herr Otto von Boeckeler describes the 

 genus Cylindrolepis as closely related to Cyperiis. The speci- 



