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the teeth on the normal pappus bristles. The anthers appear 
to be barren and are ruptured by the enlarged style. One 
head has developed perfect achenes on about one-third of the 
receptacle, the remainder of the florets, though not prolonged 
and developing corolla, stamens, style and normal pap- 
pus, are colored green and are barren. 
Plants of this species seem to be very liable to fasciation. 
During the present season I have met with quite a number 
of cases, in Berkeley, where fusion of two (in some cases 
perhaps more) flower stems has taken place: one of these 
examples exhibited two perfectly distinct sessile heads borne 
on a single terete flower stalk; in other cases the heads were 
more or less fused and the stems somewhat flattened and 
striated. One specimen, brought from Marin County, had a 
broad and very flattened stem, enlarged at the top, bearing 
the florets, all of which were perfect, on a convex arc-like 
receptacle, very narrow one way and broad the other, giving 
something of the appearance of Celosia cristata. 
Satvia CotumBariz, Benth. Plants of Salvia Columba- 
ric under observation in the Botanic Garden of the Univer- 
sity, at Berkeley, show considerable tendency to floral pro- 
lification; this tendency is not confined to, though most fre- 
quently observed in, the central capitulum of the cymose 
inflorescence, the two branches being also subject to it: the 
secondary head is borne on a peduncle usually as long as 
that of the primary head. It is noticeable that cutting off 
the ripened heads induces the plants to throw out a fresh 
crop of heads on secondary and even ternary branchlets of 
the primary cyme; the same effect is produced with prolific 
heads, with this modification, that in none of the examples 
before me have I observed branches of the cyme produced 
from both sides of such heads. It is to be regretted that no 
plants were left uncut by which to determine whether the 
second crop was certainly the result of cropping, as is often 
the case with plants under cultivation. J. Burtt Davy. 
