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384 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
deposited here, and the advent of the cenotheras is doubtless 
from one or other of these two sources. 
The plants closely resemble the “Isle of Wight" race of Œ. 
Lamarckiana (to be described in a book now in process of pub- 
lication) and the species as it generally appears in English 
gardens. Тһе rosettes in this colony differ in having green 
midribs (both dorsally and ventrally), or pink midribs (both 
dorsally and ventrally), but the depth of red varies. Тһе same 
applies to the stem-leaves. This is curiously different from 
other races, such as Œ. mut. rubrinervis, in which the midribs 
are red dorsally and green ventrally. Тһе rosette leaves are 
usually nearly or quite smooth, but some may be crinkled. 
The plants were short, their average height being about twenty- 
two inches, though some reached a height of over three feet. 
The stems bear many red papilla. The smaller plants were 
unbranched, the lower stem-leaves being closely crinkled and 
curled while the upper leaves and bracts are often quite smooth. 
A peculiarity of the race was the irregular disposition on the 
stem of much-crinkled and nearly smooth leaves, without 
gradual transitions between them such as usually occur in de 
Vries's гасе of (Е. Lamarckiana. Not infrequently crinkled 
and smooth leaves alternate. Тһе buds have fewer long hairs 
than in the above mentioned race, and the sepals have uniformly 
the red color pattern 5-7 of (Е. mut. rubrinervis, though they 
vary somewhat in depth of shade. Тһе dimensions of the 
flowers were as follows: bud cone 50 mm., hypanthium 43 mm., 
ovary 11 mm., diameter of cone at base 11 mm., length of petals 
50 mm., width 60 mm. One plant was identical with the race 
of de Vries, except in its larger flowers, reddish sepals and fewer 
long hairs. In most plants there is also a strong distinction 
between the smooth and crinkled leaves. 
This colony differs, therefore, in minor peculiarities from 
any race of Œ. Lamarckiana previously observed, and it ex- 
hibits а relatively narrow range of variation. 
Along the electric railway tracks north of Liverpool, between 
Crosby and Hightown, an equally extensive and uniform colony 
of Œ. biennis was found. Thousands of plants, in flower and 
rosettes, Were growing on uncultivated land with a nearly pure 
sandy soil, behind the coast range of sand hills in a long narrow 
