118 The Botanical Gazette. {March, 
return and make a closer examination, when I was astonished to find 
its peculiar appearance was caused by dissected leaves! Every leaf on 
the whole shrub was dissected. I call it a shrub, for in the mountains, 
Acer glabrum is hardly worthy of any other name. The dissection 
was such as to make the compound leaf trifoliate palmate. 
A young student in Oberlin college, a practical and intelligent 
farmer, has brought me two carrots which have grown together ina 
peculiar manner. The leaves were gone, but he testifies emphatically 
that both component parts are carrots. One is flesh color and the 
other white. They crossed each other near their tops, grew together 
at the point of intersection in such a manner that the red bottom had 
a white top, and the white bottom a red top. Longitudinal section 
showed that the vascular systems had also grafted into each other so 
that the chief sustenance of the white top came from the red bottom, 
and vice versa. The original connections of red to red, and white to 
white were kept up, but in an evidently great reduction. The outer 
appearance was like Siamese twins, but the longitudinal section 
showed it to be a case of grafting and adoption.—F. D. KELSEY, 
Oberlin College, Oberlin, O. 
