1892.] Notes and News. 337 
Lh 
e€ f art of a garden. Of 
fifty leaves taken at random twelve had extra leaflets upon the petiole. 
these twelve, eight had two leaflets, opposite in four cases and al- 
ternate in four, and four had single leaflets upon the petiole below the 
normal leaflets. 
May 7th, 1891, I found the extra leaflets abundant in the locality 
apeaag and also upon our north campus near the lake shore. 
en ae at random one in every four or five had the extra one 
or two leaflets. 
In July, 1891, I found in the herbarium of the Natural History Mu- 
seum, Kensington, London, two specimens of Fragaria Virginiana, 
one collected in Colorado and the other at Kettle Falls upon the Co- 
per cent. of the leaves of Fragaria have five leaflets, two of which usu- 
ally disappear as the season advances leaving the normal trifoliate 
llerman, from the variations which she has noted, reasons 
that the strawberry is developing a quinquefoliate form of leaf. By 
the flight of his imagination in “The Evolutionist at Large,” Grant 
Allen shows how the “fruit” of the strawberry may have developed 
om a potentilla; while the facts given above seem to indicate that 
the plant, so far as the leaves give evidence, 1s passing or has passe 
from a pinnate form, not unlike certain potentillas, having five or more 
leaflets, into a trifoliate form. These observations were made both 
upon Fragaria Virginiana and upon its variety Illinoensis—C. B. At- 
WELL, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ills. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mk. E. W. Fister has b ‘nted curator of the herbarium of 
Indiana University. ese ieee sums oad 
isonet eTIONARY of botanical terms by A. A. Crozier has recently been 
ued by Henry Holt & Co. 
on ORRECTION.—In Mr. A. F. Foerste’s article in the August GaZETT?, 
slat ag {amamelis Canadensis is mentioned twice. This was @ 
Tae t, since 1. Virginiana was intended in both cases. : 
1E FOLLOWING PAPERS by Professor Pammel appear in the Pro- 
owe of the Iowa cateuiy of Sciences, vol. 1, pt. 2: Woody. plants 
Sippi estern Wisconsin; and, Forest vegetation of the Uppet Missis- 
H. L. Russet, whose studies of marine bacteria and of the im- 
buti plants from bacterial diseases are among important recent 
‘tions to bacteriology, has accepted a fellowship in biology 1n 
g 
R. Wate tment of 
‘Aine Rr H. Evans has been appointed by the Depar 
Snculture, in the office of Experiment Stations, to have charge of the 
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