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TENDENCY OF FLORAL ORGANS TO EXCHANGE OFFICES. — In the No- 
vember NATURALIST, p. 494, ** C. J. S.," speaks of finding a little ear on 
the apex of a staminate spike of Indian Corn. This is something new to 
me; but I have several times seen staminate organs, produced on - ear. 
When the rains came after the past dry summer many plants seem to 
have made haste to produce new organs even though out of lid «du 
than to go on with the development of organs formed at the natural 
t rn has 
ime. This tendency gives us ears of c n the tassel, as C 
observed, and tassels formed upon the ear and many abortive ears ina 
single husk, as I h observed this fall. I have noticed, also, a few 
growth of little leaves, and are scarcely recognizable as Timothy-heads. 
D. MILLIKIN. 
MoNsTROSITY IN TRILLIUM. — April 28, 1866, while totas D at ie 
Roy, N. Y., I found a Trillium with two stems arising from a c 
rootstock, "each stem bearing a flower unlike the other and neither pulsi. 
he petals of one could hardly be distinguished from its sepals, the only 
— Mire being a minute white margin surrounding the apex 
of each petal. The floral envelopes in this case appear to have reverted 
to the "pam and color of the leaves much more nearly, than in the other 
terminal flower where the petals are oblong and pure white, having a nar- 
row green stripe running through the centre of each. "Though monstros- 
ities among the Trilliums may not be rare, I have never seen à similar 
one. — C. S. OSBORNE, Rochester, N. Y. 
Notices OF BOTANICAL MONSTROSITIES, such as the above, we are glad 
from our various correspondents. But they must not be dis- 
appointed if they should not appear at once. When they have accumu- 
lated a little so as to throw interest upon each other, we will print them 
all, or the most interesting ones, with some remarks on their classification 
and bearing, as pe ted in connection with a recent work upon Vege- 
table Teratology, by Dr. Masters of London, published by the Ray Soci- 
ety. ‘If ou 
monstrosity in Indian corn, the attempt to produce ears on the staminate 
spike is common enough; the production of male flowers on the ear is so 
unusual that we should be very glad to see specimens. Chlorosis (as it is 
termed) in Trillium grandiflorum is rather common, and we find that the 
plant so affected goes on year after year producing such blossoms. — Eps. 
.— Dr. Berthold Seeman discusses in the **Journal of 
upon a vegetation which, like the Arctic, enjoys the protection of a thick 
covering of snow, and is besides in a state of inactivity. e tempera- 
f the summer during the months of July and August has by far the 
