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No. 2. Every one knows that in our Northern States 

 white and yellow violets are eomnion, there heini*- four or 

 five white tiowered spceies and three yellow tlowered s[)e- 

 eies, with several other yellow kinds in California. 



No. 3. Delphinium has two or more species with yellow 

 petals, and Aconitum thirteen species and varieties yellow 

 or cream color ! 



No. 4. (^ur New Enijland Aquilegia is scarlet tipped 

 with yellow ; it is not a reversion, l)ut a pro<2:ression fiom 

 yellow to scarlet. California has two or more species 

 wholly yellow ! 



No. 5. We have only to point to the immense number 

 of yellow disc florets of this form of flower in Composites, 

 to the squash, cucumber, (lerardia, 3/imiilns, Verhasoum, 

 Calceolaria, Oenothera, Lonlcera, AUamanda, Bf(/)io)iia, 

 etc., etc., all yellow^ 1 



No. (5. We count in Lowden, whose list is very incom- 

 plete, thirty, white species and twenty yellow flowered 

 species ! 



No. 7. The stamens in liannncuJacea' are very largely 

 white or ])urple. 



No. 8. In Cineraria, the cultivated species are mostly 

 crimson, purple or blue and never yellow, and the centre 

 florets are of the same color ! These rays in various varie- 

 ties are in all stages to })ure white. Serioocarpiis eonyzoidex, 

 central florets pink-purple, rays white. Nearly every color 

 under favorable circumstances becomes white 



No. 9. The great mjijority of species have their carpels 

 more or less united ; we will only mention a few : Nuphar 

 ovary, eight to twenty-four cells, yellow : (Jenofhera pod, 

 four cells, yellow ; Hypericum pod one celled, styles three 

 yellow, etc., etc. 



No. 10. We have shown that buttercups have various 

 colors, and we can add that Potentilla has besid(^ the com- 

 mon yellow also rose, white, scarlet and dark crimson hues, 

 and in P. palustris a purple color ! 



