BOTANY. 629 
VARIATIONS IN MEDEOLA AND Uvurarta.—On the 17th of June, 
1872, I found in the woods near Fredericton, N. B., a specimen 
of Medeola Virginica (not rare in these parts), possessing the 
following unusual characteristics. 
The whole plant was about eighteen inches high. Instead of 
the usual whorl of leaves near the middle of the stem, the whole 
of these were clustered at the summit, there producing a sort of 
double whorl, of twelve leaves in all, the lower and outer being 
of the usual size and gradually becoming smaller and oval-lanceo- 
late towards the top, thus embracing the upper whorl of three 
leaves usually found beneath the flower. The latter was still 
more anomalous in character, the single blossom (which was erect, 
and not recurved, upon a short stout peduncle) having one petal 
recurved between two of the sepals, which with the remaining 
petals were alike and spreading, with incurved edges. Within 
the perianth were four other bodies, apparently petals, but some- 
what stamen-like in aspect, followed by three good and three ap- 
parently abortive stamens, the whole surrounding siz dark purple 
stigmas! Are these results the effect of an effort at reversion, 
or are they due to a partial consolidation of the two or more flow- 
ers usually found in the same situation— or both? 
Another curiosity, though less remarkable than the last, and 
recently observed by me, is a specimen of Uvularia sessilifolia 
possessing three well formed flowers instead of the solitary one or 
rarely two, described in Gray’s Manual as usual with the plant. 
Both of the above specimens were preserved and are now in my 
herbarium.—L. W. BAILEY. 
A New Barrasr Warr. — Kaighn’s Point, opposite Philadel- 
phia—a place where ballast is discharged—is noted for the for- 
eign plants which appear there year after year, some of which are 
disposed to remain. To the list of such plants which has been 
published we may now add a remarkable one, Calycera balsamiti- 
Jolia, a native of Buenos Ayres, a representative of a singular 
small family, nearly allied to Compositæ, and peculiar to extra- 
tropical South America. It was collected by Mr. Isaac Burk, 
and determined by Dr. H. Leifmann of Philadelphia.—A. G. 
