576 General Notes. [June 
the aspect of potatoes, represented by French Up- 
right and the New Station. 
Another species, Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium Dunal, “ Solan. 
Syn.,” 3, the Current tomato, is cultivated as a curiosity.—Z, H. 
. Bailey, Fr., Agricultural College, Mich. 
Experiments with Lima Beans in Germination.'—After 
reading some of the suggestive writings of Darwin, I began a 
few experiments with some Lima beans. About forty seeds were 
_ _* Read at the Montreal meeting of A. A. A. S. in 1882, and only a very brief 
abstract printed, without illustrations. > : 
