338 The Botanical Gazette. [ August, 
mal whorl on the stem, are three more whorls of three leaves each set 
closely together, making a pretty rosette, and above those is the flower 
erect. Sepals rather larger than common; petals 11 long and 4! wide, 
with a white stripe running down the center, and a green one on each 
edge; stigmas four; one of the petals two-parted. 
In the other plant a rosette of two whorls; a third abnormal whorl 
inthis specimen also, but lifted half an inch above the others to the 
base of the flower. Petals green and white; one stamen abortive; stig: 
mas two. The rosettes pressed and mounted measure in one plant 5* 
10! across, in the other 4™ 11, 
The upright flowers suggested T. grandiflorum, but the stigmas, 
distinct and recurved,and the short stamensare perhaps enough to prove 
the species to be cernuum; moreover, I learn that T. grandiflorum has 
never been noticed in that vicinity, and that T. cernuum is common 
where these plants were found. They were collected by a very youthful 
observer, Miss Anna Dimmock, who writes to me that there were several 
other similar specimens where she gathered those which she sent here. » 
—Maria L. Owen, Springfield, Mass. 
An abnormal Hepatica.—A peculiar form of Hepatica triloba, et 
lected near Boston, was brought to me recently. The peduncle, 
which is very flat, though not much larger than usual, is doubtless 8 
case of fasciation. The involucre consists of seven green bracts of 
unequal size, one with a white streak on both sides. A normal ae 
of nine semi-white sepals is in the normal position. Another pe 
flower, of six white sepals, is crowded between the larger howe a 
the involucre on a short pedicel. This flower has an wee x 
three bracts, one green, and two of a variegated green and white colo ‘ 
Both flowers have the usual number of stamens and pistils—Watt#® 
DEANE, Cambridge, Mass. 
