114 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
face, while the North Carolina one is pale green on both sides. So far there 
be some ground for distinction, but on looking about in the a I 
found several in which one of the three leaflets was partly divided. In o 
case the division extended two-thirds of the distance towards the midrib. sil 
the gray under surface seemed uniform through all these wild plants. I was 
surprised to find all of them barren, and went to a locality where I knew I had 
collected ripe fruit, and found these plants quite different from the early ones. 
They were larger and stouter, purple stemmed, with two leaves on a stalk as in 
he North Carolina one, the leaves pale green on both sides, as in the North 
Carolina one, and just opening its flowers, also as in the one from North Cate; 
lina. I did not know before that there were early and late flowering ones with 
us; that the early ones had gray under surfaces, and that the early ones were : 
b It will be interesting to know whether this holds good in other local- 
ities. But I suppose we shall have to consider A. eee as merely A. 
triphyllum, without even honoring it with a varietal nam 
y the way, Engler, in De Candole’s sang adopts Schott’s name, 
Arisema quinatum for this A. polymorphum, and Blume’s name, Ariscema atrorubens, 
for our A, triphyllum and varieties. ST ein ha MEEHAN. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
THe PHILADELPHIA MEETING promises to be an unusually important gath- 
aa for botanists. 
TWENTY BOTANICAL NOTES are found in ise first part of the Pro 
hae spine for 1884, principally by Mr. Thos. Mee 
N THE GAzetTE for April, p. 53,54, Antirrhinum Nevinianum was by 4 clits 
cal mistake given as A, Nivenianum. It should be corrected accordingly. 
MMER Course IN Borany at Cambridge this year will be under the 
charge of Prof Wm. Trelease. It begins July 7th and lasts six weeks, and 
among advanced students special attention will be given to the study of CryP 
togams. 
HE WHOLE EDITION of the aR of Nigeli and Schwendener’s work 
on the microscope, about to be published by a London firm, was recently de- 
stroyed by fire. It will again be put through the press, however with as little 
delay as possible. This is the most important work for botanists on microse? — 
pic manipulation yet issued in our — 
bers about two hundred dienilitws The means used are ee read a knowledge 
of the danger by means of Gireuipendence and publications; to post placards 
in Swiss hotels; to cultivate for sale such alpine plants as can be grown in the 
valleys, and thus furnish them already potted for transportation. 
