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the NATURALIST, the following, which I believe have not been mentioned 
by any writer, viz.: Viola cucullata, Viola sagittata, Phlox pilosa, and 
Gerardia aspera. All these have fallen under my observation in Southern 
Wisconsin during the past eight years. I observe also that in all of these 
plants the foliage is paler in the white flowered specimens. For example: 
Gerardia aspera has, in Wisconsin, almost always a purple stem and pur- 
plish foliage, but in the albino specimens, of which I have seen at least 
half a dozen, the stem and leaves were a very light green. 
n the November number Mr. Meehan mentions a Saxifraga as growing 
wild aa double flowers, and enquires, “Has any other double flower 
been found?” I reply that some six years since a rue anemone (Anemone 
Piatra grew in a wood pasture near Albion, Wisconsin, with 
ctly double. After being transplanted to my mother’s flower 
seis ies never flowered again, and finally disappeared. I also took a 
specimen of Helianthus giganteus, in October of the last year, from its 
native prairie soil, in Pratt County, Illinois, with all the flowers ligulate 
in the manner of the so-called double flowers of the florists of this natural 
order. — EDWARD L. GREENE, Decatur, IU 
More Wuire Varreties.—The past season appears to have been unusu- 
_ally prolific in white flowers. In north-eastern Minnesota (shore of Lake 
less, and the corolla was pure white with a few fai othe ow orgies It 
grew in abundance on damp rocks, in close mity to the common 
form. I had observed previously the Eri h grr rm L., with 
white rays, which are usually of purple or flesh color. A friend informs 
me he has found this year, with white flowers, Spirea tomentosa L., Cir- 
sium arvense Scop., Trifolium pratense L., Statice limonium L., and Gen- 
: many saponaria var. linearis Gr. We have had reported also Cypripedium 
they may kindly inform us. T furnish conclusive testimony that 
certain seasons are remarkable in this way, and that that of 1868 was one 
of "Beg 
the Lobelia cardinalis L., and L. syphilitica L., having been not 
unfrequentiy found with white flowers, and a white variety of the Z. Kal- 
ii L. being now added to the group, it would appear that the genus is 
inclined to produce white varieties. Some plants have undoubtedly a 
peculiar inclination to this. I would add that, several years ago, I saw 
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value, — HENRY GILLMAN, , Michigan. 
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