BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 113 
Helonias bullata in Northern New Jersey.—While botanizing in low 
grounds bordering on Budd’s Lake, Morris county, last year, I discovered sev- 
eral clusters of Helonias bullata bearing scapes of faded flowers; owing to lack 
of time I was unable to see to what extent it was established. I again visited 
the same locality this year, and after further search I found growing in a piece 
of woodland several acres in extent, a great abundance of these plants, many 
of them in fine flowering condition. There can be no possible doubt that Hel- 
onias bullata has been well established for years in this locality. It has been 
collected in various portions of Southern New Jersey, its range extending as far 
north as Freehold, Monmouth county ; the only other habitat north of this being 
at Succasunna, Morris county. I am therefore pleased to be able to make an im- 
portant addition to the habitats of what appears to be the most northern limit 
of this plant in New Jersey.—EucEne A. Rav, Bethlehem, Pa. 
Abnormal Trillium.— An abnormal specimen of Trillium erectum was col- 
lected near here a few days ago. It had the regular whorl of three leaves, and 
at the peduncle, about half way between the leaves and the flower, was a fourth 
and a smaller leaf. The flower itself was four-parted throughout. There were 
four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, four pistils, and a four-celled ovary. 
Two of the sepals were half green and had the other halves colored like the 
petals—Jos. F. James. 
Note on Viola cucullata.—The flowers of Viola cucullata have been remark- 
able this spring for their numbers and size, Banks are literally blue with them, . 
and many are an inch in diameter, But what is stranger is that they are being 
largely visited by bees, and are setting fruit freely. Heretofore the fruit has 
been difficult to find, but it is not so this year. Probably the size of the flowers 
is the cause of the visits of the bees, and the visits the reason for the setting of 
the fruit. A curious variation of color was also noticed. The flowers were of 
alight lavender, not a deeper color faded out, because there were too man of 
them, and others close by and under the same condition were of the deepest blue, 
—Jos. F. James. 
Arisema polymorphum, Chapman.—When in North Carolina a few sum- 
mers ago, I kept a lookout for Ariscema polymorphum, but found only a single 
the» Believing the two to be distinct I have been to 
pe ‘ogi for a quantity for comparison, and find all the flowers apparently a 
on tp weeks over bloom, and all faded, so that I can not find a single one 
© road to fertility. Now these leaves are all cinereous on the under sur- 
