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stalks of D. filiformis var. Tracyi from Georgia, and in seedlings 

 of D. indica, I failed to find leaves differing in form or in mar- 

 ginal tentacles from the adult. The tentacles of course were 

 somewhat simpler, but the type was the same. D. indica is an 

 oriental caulescent plant with very slender linear leaves. 



In conclusion : my observations are to the effect that in all 

 species the earliest foliage leaves are possessed of characteristic 

 Droseraceous features. In this sense, these early leaves are like 

 the adult foliage. Any recapitulation is within the limits of the 

 genus. Cases of deficient organization, or malformation, are 

 excluded. 



Secondly, in seedling and adventive D. intermedia, in adven- 

 tive D. linearis, in seedling and adventive D. capensis, I found 

 reversion to a round blade, in adventive D. filiformis, to a spathu- 

 late form ; and in most species an atavistic condition of the mar- 

 ginal tentacles appears in the youthful leaves. 



Thirdly, adventives may differ even within the same species, 

 according to food supply. But in the species studied by me 

 seedlings and adventives from small portions of the adult, as 

 fragments of leaves, flower stalks, and roots, were found to be 

 essentially alike as regards leaf shape and as regards the char- 

 acter of the marginal tentacles. 



New Jersey State Normal School, 

 Trenton, New Jersey 



LOCAL FLORA NOTES — I 



By Norman Taylor 



Under the above title it is proposed to bring before the mem- 

 bers of the club problems that are in need of further elucidation. 

 Being primarily problems of distribution they fall more within 

 the province of the active members of the club as a whole than 

 they do upon any one individual, whose precise knowledge of 

 such data must necessarily be limited by the material at hand. 



From results already tabulated it becomes increasingly certain 

 that many species credited to all or part of the local flora range, 

 either do not occur at all, or else, occur in such out-of-the-way 

 and little-known localities that collections from them have failed 



