io botanical gazette. | January, 



ambar. This passage is given in explaining a sort of con- 

 verse to the usual form of lenticels, that is, convex exter- 

 nally. 



I have been unable to harmonize this statement with the 

 examinations made. In no stems of Acer campestre under 

 three years of age were any lenticels discovered between the 

 wings ; in fact, the anatomy given of the first and second 

 year's growth seems to preclude the idea of lenticels forming 

 in this position. If occurring in this place, in any of the 

 stems available for examination, it must have been on stems 

 so far advanced in age as to have lost the peculiar winged 

 appearance. Such stems were not examined. It is still 

 more difficult to understand the meaning of this passage in 

 case of Liquidambar and Euonvmus Europaeus. There is- 

 here no question about the position of the lenticels. As al- 

 ready explained in the anatomy, the wings of Liquidambar 

 occur, at first, as a single ridge, under a row of lenticels on 

 the upper side of the stem, which afterward splits open along 

 the line of opening of the lenticels, in many cases the break 

 extending quite to the phellogen cells. During this growth 

 there is a large portion of the circumference of the stem not 

 affected by the wing formation ; over this are scattered the 

 convex lenticels, which are in no way different from those 

 on stems without cork. None were discovered between the 

 wings in any other sense than this, and there are certainly 

 no exceptions to the usual convex lenticels. 



In Euonvmus Europaeus, the wings are at the corners of 

 the stem, and between them are broad spaces covered with 

 epidermis, which is plentifully supplied with stomata. These 

 soon pass from that stage into that of corky excrescences, 

 which, examined after they are considerably developed, ap- 

 pear to consist of the same tissues as the wing. 



Diologica 1 Deft . Un iv . of Penn. 



The "King-Devil." 



LISTER F. WARD. 



On the 24th ot August, 1879, ^ I was returning from a 

 hunting excursion of two weeks in the "North Woods" 

 which flank the Adirondack mountains on the west (my own 

 game having been entirely of a vegetable nature), to Evans' 



