December 14, 1892.] 



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them down. This year they were covered with flow- Mr. Faxon's drawing, reproduced on this page, very well 



ers early in September, and they still presented a good shows its characters. 



appearance when Mr. Baxter wrote in the middle of In Dr. Masters' Vegetable Teratology it is noted that 



October. As to the general appearance of the flower, dialysis has been observed in Pharbitis as well as Convol- 



Fig:, loi. — A Double Morning Glory, Ipomoea purpurea. — See page 592. 



he writes that the "numerous petals standing some- vulus, Pharbitis being now included in Ipomoea and in 

 what apart form a light little cluster of striking delicacy, the section of the genus to which Ipomcea purpurea be- 

 which gives the flower a fluttering or bird-like aspect." longs. It is more proper, however, to call this doubling or 



