160 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ July, 
Var. Tainturieri has fruit tapering at the summit or beaked, 
ribs very prominent and much broader than the intervals, 
and seed-face with a shallower sulcus (figs. 82, 83). ©. 
Tainturier?’ Hook.—From Florida to Texas. 
ar. dasyearpum differs from the preceding variety in hav- 
ing pubescent fruit, with ribs prominent but narrower than 
the intervals (fig. 84; surface outline as in fig. 82). C. 
Tainturieri var. dasycarpum Hook.—Texas. This is Hall's 
60, ‘‘ pubescent form,” and Lindheimer’s 616. 
ANTHRISCUS Hoffm.‘—Fruit linear. notched at base, 
flattened laterally, long beaked (in ours): carpel without 
ribs, but beak ribbed: thin pericarp with no strengthening 
cells nor oil-ducts: seed with sulcate face (figs. 85,8 )-—-Re- 
sembling Cherophyllum in vegetative characters. Mes 
I, A. Cerefolium Hoffm.—Mature fruit smooth and shin- 
ing. Cherophyllum sativum L.—Naturalized in Easter 
Pennsylvania, Thos. C. Porter. 
_, EXPLANATION oF PLarEe TX.—Fig. 69, fruit of Pimpinella integerrima; fig. 
70, section of carpel of same; fig. 71, fruit of P. Saxifraga, var. major; 
72, section of carpel of sume; fig. 73, i ii; fig. 7 ryt 
carpel of same; fig. 75, frnit of Enlophus Americanus; fig. 76, section of carpe 
: me; fig. sag reli 
arpel of C, procumbens var. dasyearpum ; fig 85, fruit of Anthris-us Cere 
lium ; fig. 86, section of earpel of same, Figs. 74, 79, 81, 82 are Xx 4; i 
71, 73,77 are X17; fig. 76 is 20; figs 70,72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 83, 84 are X 
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BRIEFER ARTICLES. 
Faseiation in Sophora seenndiflora (with plate X.)—Dr. A. Schlott- 
cour of Round Top, Tex., soveral years ago, sent me specimens of @ 
curios form of fasciation in Sophor secundiflora Lag. (S. spee 
Benth.) It is an evergreen shrub or small tree indigenous to Tex 
The specimens alluded to are from a tree which Dr. S. has in his garden, 
and which annuall: produces peculiar deformity of the flow 
branches or racemes, : fi 
4 4 
4. sylvestris Hoffm. has been collected by Mr. Martindale on ballast ground. 
