1896.] Notes from My Herbarium. 213 
taper-pointed and doubly toothed, but with no suggestion of 
the three lobes so characteristic of the typically developed 
leaf. This primitive form occurs at times even in the sixth 
pair of leaves, while again in the second pair the lobing be- 
comes manifest. I have one specimen in which the third 
pair of leaves are very typical, while the fourth pair on the 
same plant have lost their lobes. This is significant when we 
‘ompare the seedlings with the old plant, for in the latter case 
the shape of the leaves varies very much, the same tree pro- 
ducing every form from the typical leaf to one resembling in 
lias detail but size the first pair of leaves above the cotyle- 
ons, 
In Acer Spicatum Lam. the seedlings very nearly resemble 
those of the former closely related species, and there is the 
“me gradation to the typical leaf. The coarse serration of 
the developed leaf is shown in the first leaves. The downy 
character of the under surface of the leaf does not, however, 
*ppear till the plant is pretty well developed. The leaves 
on the ends of new shoots in the old plants resemble in shape 
and size the first leaves of the seedlings. In Acer rubrum L. 
the cotyledons are broadly linear and the first leaves have 
clearly the whitish under surface peculiar to the type. In 
“lape they behave much like the two former species. 
One day I was hunting in the woods on my hands and knees 
for new plants, when I saw a seedling with oblong thick coty- 
n 
small wbaFacter and are of very varied shapes. I have high 
ant of ’ . It is nine inchne 
and bears Of several years’ growth a «a doit 
t one pair leaves, both simple. : 
“td one-half inthis tens. the other three-eighths of an - 
tulg i. Woods in Whitefield were full of the yellow renveen 
Ty “ea Mx. f., and the little seedlings were very abun 
*©etyledons are orbicular in outline with short petioles, an 
