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In our books that describe these plants they are put in the 

 tribe Anthemideae; but I am inclined to question that. For 

 the typical Anthemideae are strongly — sometimes agreeably — 

 scented (e.g., Achillea, Chamomilla, Tanacetum, Artemisia, 

 Santolina), while the species in question are odorless or practi- 

 cally so. Then too most of the Anthemideae have conspicuous 

 ray-flowers (e.g., Anthemis, Chrysanthemum) , while our plants 

 have no ray flowers, and what few corollas they have are so 

 minute that I have never been able to detect them. Most of 

 the flowers lack stamens also; and if they are Anthemideae 

 they are degenerate members of the tribe. Their awned achenes, 

 and lack of appeal to pollen-carrying insects, suggest an af- 

 finity to Ambrosia, which with a few other genera is now ex- 

 cluded from the Compositae proper. 



University, Ala. 



* A correction 



Edward "W. Berry 



In 1924 I described, under the name of Calcophysoides halli, 

 a supposed cucurbitaceous fruit which had been sent to me by 

 Professor O. M. Ball, and which came from Foard County, 

 Texas. ^ This year a similar but smaller specimen was sent to 

 Dr. Roland W. Brown of the U. S. Geological Survey from 

 Idalia, Missouri, and a third from Brookings, South Dakota. 



Due to the acumen of Dr. Brown it is now clear that all 

 three specimens are baked clay artifacts and not fossil fruits, 

 and the above name consequently should disappear in the limbo 

 of mistaken identities, at least that is my hope. 



My original specimen was cut transverse, as was also the 

 specimen from Idalia, which I have not seen. These both show 

 flow structure, irregular cavities, which before firing contained 

 binder to make them come out porous. One had a baked finger- 

 print on the outside and the other a large cinder near the 

 periphery. I quote these in part from Brown's letter to me. 

 It has been suggested that these artifacts are of the nature of 

 the so-called Cape Cod fire lighters, which seems a likely inter- 

 pretation. The entire credit for clearing up the nature of these 

 objects belongs to Dr. Brown and I am very glad of the oppor- 

 tunity of correcting my mistake. 

 The Johns Hopkins University, 



Baltimore, Md. 

 1 Torreya, 24: 5-7, 1924. 



