328 The Botanical Gazette. [October, 
mens that showed a faint mottling in lighter shades of green 
when the season was much advanced. The leaves of this 
species are also much narrower and longer than those of either 
the other two, being mostly linear-lanceolate, and indeed even 
linear in some specimens. : 
The habitat of these plants is also characteristic, E. albi- 
dum and E. Americanum preferring deep shaded ravines and 
moist meadows, while E. mesochoreum takes to the hill-tops 
and the north facing slopes whether wooded, or open and 
covered with grass. ; 
The color of the sepals is also distinctive, E. Americanum 
being yellow with purple dots at the base, E. albidum white 
tinged with pink, and E. mesochoreum also white, but tinged 
with lavender or blue. The perianth of the last is usually 
much longer than that of E. albidum and is not so much re- 
flexed in the bright sunshine. : oi 
The stigmas of E. Americanum are peculiar, being mass 
into a club-shaped body; those of E. albidum are quite diver 
gent and somewhat recurved; while in E. mesochoreum pt 
are more slender and decidedly recurved. The capsules 4 
this last species are also much larger and longer than — 
either the other two and everything indicates that the a 
also more vigorous, a fact naturally to be expected, seeing 
that this form propagates rather sparingly by the bulb. 
Midland College, Atchison, Kansas. 
BRIEFER ARTICLES. 
Notes upon Daucus Carota.1—The early’introduction of t 
from its European soil and environments, and its present ic 
bution, and ready adaptation to new conditions make it a g° which 
from which to &xpect those variations of habit, structure, oo soa 
usually attend the transplanting of a new organism with ga rgone 
tions. Records of the numerous changes which it has unde 
: 2. 
*Read before Section F, A. A. A. S., Rochester meeting, August, sag 
e distri- 
