The flowers are ir. about tii'..- same condi + ion in 

 October as in H. vi r,';iniana , except that the stanens 

 were rather backward. The pollen /^i^ains were free 

 and 'nad each two free nuclei, and evidently pass the 



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winter in that stage (Fif^. 42). As the pollen is^in 

 March at the latest, it probably must rest about two 

 months befoi'e fertilization occurs. 



The petals are coiled involutely in the bud as in 

 H. v irginian a , but instead o^ being entirely smooth 

 had a tuft of hairs on the tips. 



In other respects the two genera were much alike 

 in their development so far as studied. 



"Fothergilla Gardeni - 



An incomplete series of stages of this was stud- 

 ied. Its flov/ers appear in the spring, along with the 



