THE A.AIERICAN BOTANIST 



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plants and the dead languages will observe that the generic 

 name means one-leaved, the specific means two-leaved and the 

 varietal one-leaved. The odds seem to be two to one that the 

 plant has a single leaf, but knowing the ways o£ the name- 

 tinkers one can never be sure. Anyway, this seems a long way 

 around a plant with only one leaf. 



Brawn versus Brain. — Is there no significance in the 

 fact that many of our colleges are better known through their 

 foot-work than their head-work? Is it not significant that the 

 Y. M. C. A.'s dotting our land are as strong in bowling-alleys 

 as in education and that most of our religious training goes tp 

 the heathen ? Is it a sign of health that so^ large a proportion 

 of our newspapers are paid to feed us with results of useless 

 experiments between prize-fighters? I think the stadium 

 should be the accessory of the laboratory, not the temple of the 

 oracle; and that in reality a research laboratory is more com- 

 patible Avith the object of a university than the more common 

 training table. I do not mean to be too insistent as a critic or 

 too pressing as an advocate, but I hate to see my own country 

 such a trailer as it now is. I hope the conditions are changing, 

 but I know they are not changing fast enough. All service is 

 based on knowledge, and knowledge is an ever augmenting 

 thing which almost anyone may increase. If the stock is eter- 

 nally useful as it is, how great must be the value of the inde- 

 structible increments which anyone may produce. When so 

 much of our .material welfare, the condition and extent of our 

 manufactures, the quality of our agricultural efforts, and the 

 health of our people, depend upon the rate of our acquirement 

 of new knowledge, there ought to be much greater eft'ort made 

 along the lines of research than is at present the case. — Fro in 

 an article by Dr. Willis R. Whitney, in Science. 



Food of the June Bug. — W^hen the return of mild 

 weather makes open windoW'S again possible, about the first 

 thing to follow the omnipresent fly into the house is the ^lay- 



