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PLANTS WITH HERMAPHRODITE FLOWERS. 
(14,8) (16) (12, 13, 8,9,10) (9,11,15) (20, 18, 18, 16, 
19) (14, 6, 8, 6) (16, 12) (20, 23, 26) (18, 19) (14, 25, 19, 23, 
14) (18, 17) (8) (7) (6) 
PLANTS WITH PISTILLATE FLOWERS. 
(13, 14) (10,9, 6, 10) (19, 16, 13, 22) (14, I8, 21, 16) (8, 
7, 11) (3, 4) (8, 6, 5, 6, 3) (7, 9,9) (9) (7, 9, 8) (3) (10, 6) 
(13, 5, 9, 11, 12) (18, 8, 10) (15, 16) (22, 20, 19, 17, 16, 17) 
(14, 18, 20) 
These tables are interesting as showing the variable num- 
ber of seeds ripening, and also that the two kinds of plants 
are equally variable in this respect. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 
A. Perfect flower; a, honey gland; b, anther discharging 
pollen. 
B. Pistillate flower; a, honey gland; b, anther discharging 
pollen. 
C. Immature stigma. 
D. Receptive stigma. 
E. Sterile stamen. 
F. Fertile anther. 
BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO ANTELOPE VALLEY. 
By Dr. A. Davipson. 
On the first day of May my companion and I arrived at 
Lancaster, Los Angeles Co., on a botanical excursion, and 
early the following morning took our seats in the mail 
stage for Gorman Station, fifty miles westwards. The dis- 
trict traversed, commonly known as the Antelope Valley, is 
practically an immense, level, triangular plain bounded by 
the Tehachapai Mountains on the north and the Sierra 
