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placentae. The collector stated that fasciation is not uncom- 

 mon in robust plants of this Eschscholtzia, but that it had 

 never been met with in nearly so marked a degree. 



BoisDUVALiA DENSiFLOEA, var. IMBEICATA, Greene. Near 

 Little Oak, Solano County, I collected in September, 1893, 

 specimens of the above plant which exhibited a case of fas- 

 cination in which the flowers and bracts were densely crowded 

 on very short branches (one or two inches long), these for 

 the most part fascicled at the summit of the stem and so 

 disposed as to lie mostly in one plane, thus presenting a 

 flattened- clavate or flabelliform appearance. This abnormal 

 form appears to be hereditary. I have noticed it in this 

 locality for several years, and during the last season such 

 individuals were more numerous than those of the normal 

 form, which, as it grows here, is two to three feet in height, 

 very slender, and with only a few virgate branches at or 

 above the middle of the stem. Willis L. Jepson. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 



Descriptions of twelve new species and three new vari- 

 eties of grasses from California, Oregon and Washington by 

 the late Dr. George Vasey appear in Contributions from the 

 National Herbarium, Vol. 1, No. 8. It is significant that the 

 latest work of several of the best Eastern botanists has 

 been the publication of new, or the confirmation of lately 

 published species from a region in which it was formerly 

 wont to be hinted that of species there were more than 

 enough already published. 



The Gray Memorial Botanical Chapter of the Agassiz 

 Association has ventured on the publication, in a quarterly 

 form, styled the Asa Gray Bulletin, of the most worthy of 

 the reports of its members. Three numbers have so far 

 been issued. The Chapter is a corresponding one and remote- 

 ness of residence is no bar to membership. 



