pink rays. The ordinary white form is abundant in the same 

 locality. 



Taraxacum Taraxacum (L.) Karst. In full flower April 23, 

 1 90 1, at Las Vegas, N. M., attracting the very earliest bees of 

 the season. Two caught on the flowers were females of Halictus 

 anomalns Rob., and H. pruinosus Rob. Muller says there are 

 IOO to over 200 florets in a head of the dandelion ; seven Las 

 Vegas flowers gave these numbers: 120, 100, 150, 104, 138, 



150, 145- 

 East Las Vegas, New Mk.vico. 



SHORTER NOTES 



A New Peperomia from the Island of St. 'Kitts. — Pep- 

 eromia Davisii Britton, n. sp. Climbing on the bases of trees, 

 finely puberulent nearly all over, 1.5—3 dm. long. Leaves orbic- 

 ular-ovate, abruptly acute, thick, distinctly cordate at the base, 

 3—4 cm. long and about as wide, palmately veined, the midvein 

 rather prominent and broad, the lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, very 

 delicate, the stout petiole as long as the blade or shorter ; spikes 

 geminate, their common peduncle 3—4 cm. long, bearing at the 

 top a lanceolate-oblong acute bract about 1 cm. long, the peduncle 

 of one of the spikes bearing I or 2 similar smaller bracts, that 

 of the other spike bractless ; spikes 3—4 cm. long. 



On forest slopes of Mount Misery, Island of St. Kitts, Brit- 

 ish West Indies, September, 1901, N. L. Britton and J. F. Cow- 

 ell, no. 506. Not uncommon in the forests of this island, at 

 altitudes of 600 to 1,000 meters ; now in cultivation at the New 

 York Botanical Garden. The specific name is in honor of Mr. 

 B. S. Davis, a resident planter of St. Kitts, who is much inter- 

 ested in its flora and who kindly gave us valuable assistance in 

 our exploration of its forests on the Belmont and Lambert 

 estates. The species is probably nearest related to Peperomia 

 inopJiylla Griseb., of Cuba, differing markedly in its cordate 

 leaves and geminate spikes. N. L. Britton. 



Ilex myrtifolia with yellow Fruit. — The occurrence of 

 yellow fruit in Ilex opaca has long been known to botanists, 



