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of the seedling trees, which in such quantities and for next year’s 
planting wo ave to be obtained mainly in Europe, at least the 
pines and larches. The ashes, probably, would have to be raised 
fro ; and the time, if need be, would doubtless be extended. 
The prizes to be awarded in the summer of 1877. Mr. Sargent’s 
estimates promise a handsome return for the capital and labor 
invested in judicious tree-planting for economical purposes; these 
timely prizes may stimulate enterprise ; and the sense of contribu. 
ting to the adornment as well as to the material resources of the 
country should also be a motive and a reward. AG. 
teromorphism in Epigea.—The May-flower, being more 
known in all the details of structure. But it hardly isso. Lhe 
structure of its stigma was first well described in the 5th edition 
of my Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, and 
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apex of the style is as it were hollowed out or extended into 4 
ring, with a 5-crenate border, to the inner face of which the five 
stigmas are adnate, each before one of the small teeth or lobes, 
and extending sometimes slightly beyond it, but remaining short 
and erect, sometimes much beyond and radiately expanded, : 
In Michaux’s Flora is the note “Flores omnes in nonnullis 
individuis abortivi,” and botanists are generally aware that frult 
is seldom met with. The flowers have been said to be unisexual 
About ten per cent of the specimens have a style consider 
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atl longer than the stamens, raising the stigmas a little out of 
the throat of the corolla, in which the anthers are included: the — 
ruil ing specimens gathered at the same station in former years = 
all evidently belong to this form, as the persistent style and long — 
i form manifest # 
stigmas show. One or two specimens of this 
disposition to convert their anthers into petals; but this is occa 
rms, 
sionally seen in other fo 
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