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In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 8 : 36. 188 1, 

 is a note with illustration of a leaf of the round-lobed Hepatica 

 with seven lobes, which was exhibited by Mr. Gerard at a meet- 

 ing of the Club. He says all the leaves of the plant possessed 

 the same peculiarity, " the middle lobe being deeply trilobate and 

 the lateral ones bilobate, thus making an approach toward the 

 leaf forms found in the genus Anemone" 



Professor W. R. Dudley, in his Cayuga Flora, alludes to " forms 

 with five- and even seven-lobed leaves in rich shaded soil at Big 



Gully, etc." In the Columbia Herbarium is a specimen from 

 Lookout Mountain, Tenn., with eight-lobed leaves, collected by 

 Dr. A. W. Chapman. There is also a specimen from northern 

 New Jersey, at State Line, collected by Dr. N. L. Britton, June 

 6, 1885, with five- to seven-lobed leaves. 



Thanks are due to Miss Alexandrina Taylor for the care with 

 which she has drawn one of the beautiful leaves of the Wash- 

 ington County plant. 



