of the P'ickl Columbian Museum, a large leaf of it, the sheet on 

 which it is mounted bearing the following legend in Mr. Bebb's 

 hantl : 



" In September, 1863, I made an excursion to the pine barrens 

 of New Jersey and far down along the eastern shore of Mary- 

 land, my companion and ver)' helj^ful guide to localities of 

 special interest being my friend William M. Canby. Together 

 we visited the grave of Dr. Darlington, and finding this shrub 

 growing upon it, I took a single leaf as a memento." * 



It seems as if it would be a worthy undertaking on the part of 

 some of the botanists of eastern Pennsylvania to investigate this 

 shrub, so interesting as to the problem of its derivation. It 

 would certainly be well to explore its original habitat, or an\' 

 other that may chance to have been recorded, with a view to 

 determining whether it seems to have originated as a seedling 

 from A', glabra or as a mere offset from another individual. 



I find no record in either botany or horticulture of the shrub's 

 having borne flower or fruit ; but in the National Herbarium we 

 have a specimen communicated long ago by Mr. Commons, of 

 Delaware, which bears a panicle of immature fruit. This sample 

 was taken from a cultivated specimen, but where it was grown is 

 not indicated. 



U. S. N.\TIONAL MUSF.UM. 



NEW FASCIATIONS 



Bv J. .Arthur Harris 



Perhaps the most common of all structural anomalies is that 

 known as fasciation. Occurring in so many forms as it does, it 

 is familiar to everyone and requires no description. In some 

 species, as in the sweet potato and the coxcomb, it is to be ob- 

 served with such frecjuenc)' as to almost deserve the designation 

 of a varietal characteristic. 



The following cases of fasciation, most of which are not de- 

 scribed in Penzig's admirable compendium of vegetable teratology, 



* Herb. Field Mus., sheet 14074. 



