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rudimentary condition. The pistillodia remain for the most 
part separate, but in a few cases two or more are fused together. 
Both the anther and the filament of the stamen are affected. 
The filament is inflated into a somewhat irregularly terete organ, 
on the inner surface of which naked ovules are borne (Fig. 2). 
The outer side is covered with coarse, stiff sharp-pointed hairs 
resembling the same structures of the normal ovary. The 
anthers are replaced by an expanded leaf-like structure borne 
sessile on the stalk. This expanded portion is stigmatose along 
the edge and in some cases well-developed pollen is produced in 
this portion of the organ. All of the flowers were immature and 
consequently it is impossible to say whether seed could have been 
produced in such organs, or not. 
AUSTIN, TEXAS. 
SHORTER NOTES 
ÁN APPARENTLY NEW RECORD FOR RUBUS CHAMAEMORUS 
LiNNAEUS.— Rubus chamaemorus Linnaeus seems to be limited in 
its so far published range to the far northeast and north among 
American plants. Its occurrence south of Maine, New Hamp- 
shire and Ontario is not reported, so far as known to me. 
The new record is of two specimens taken from a bed several 
square feet in extent in one of the bogs near Montauk Point, 
L. I. These plants were collected by Dr. William C. Braislin, 
of Brooklyn, N. Y., August 21, 1908, who recognized in the plant 
something not before seen by him, and they were deposited in 
the Museum of The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences with 
the request that they be named. 
The occurrence of this Rubus on Long Island certainly is one 
not before suspected, and the only explanation of its occurrence 
in a permanent situation at Montauk Point must be due to such 
causes as are fully discussed by Dr. M. L. Fernald, in a recent 
paper containing much discussion of geographical distribution 
published in Rhodora, or to the direct agency of migratory birds, 
many of which touch Long Island in their southward flights. 
. І. Morris. 
THE CENTRAL MUSEUM 
OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 
