214 The Botanical Gazette. (April, 
the first leaves are ovate and coarsely toothed. I havea 
complete series of twenty-six specimens from the young seed- 
ling with fruit attached, through the varying forms to the 
leaves and bark of the old tree. Leaves of plants a foot high 
sides the seedling and the old plant that should also be col- 
lected and made ready for study. There are those interme 
the lower leaves are about intermediate between the two a 
tremes. They are erect, while the submersed forms 
rand? These nd many such questions must b answered ') 
the specialist, and surely the interests of science will aor 
onn 
ing forms from seed to seed 
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