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miles cast of the old town of the same name. Later, the writer 

 afrain found it, abundantly forming thickets in the brickyard dis- 

 trict just south of Havana. These thickets were strongly sug- 

 gestive of the Crataegus " formations " so abundant in similar 

 places about Pittsburg, Pa. It was also collected in flower by 

 Dr. Britton and Percy Wilson, the following September at Buey- 

 vaca and still further east, at Saguna. 



Although it seems not to have been reported from the West 

 Indies and was not observed by us as cultivated in Cuba, it has 

 been in cultivation, according to Duss (no. 2040), on Guadeloupe 

 Island under the name of " Acacia Lundea Roxb." 



J. A. Shafek. 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



A Peculiar Pea Seedling. — In handling the thousands of 

 seedlings used by classes in our large city schools one comes 

 across some queer freaks. The pea seedling shown at the right 

 of the accompanying illustration was brought in by a boy in one 



of my classes. At the left is a normal seedling. The pecu- 

 liarity consists in the fact that both root and stem were negatively 

 geotropic and both grew in the same direction. 



When the plant reached me it was in excellent condition and 

 there is no possibility of an artificial twist. 



A. J. Grout. 



Boys' High Schooi., Brooklyn. 



