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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
minished, for the four make an attractive setting, and all can be 
sipped before advancing to the next group. The torsion common 
to the lonicera stems provides that all the flowers present a uni- 
formly open front ; in other words, they hang the banner upon the 
outer wall, even though it may be necessary to turn a sharp corner 
in the event. 
It has been said that a new set of four flowers is not uniformly 
provided for each new day. That may be the rule, but there are 
dark days and rainy days, and so the uniformity is more or less 
broken. This, however, seems to be the rule — that no half-ways 
are indulged in, and if a bud is not quite ready to open upon one 
afternoon, it holds over until near the close of the next, thus giv- 
ing forth its perfume upon the evening air, and at a time when 
night-loving insects may catch sight of its showy whiteness and 
sip its sweets, while incidentally bringing to it the pollen from 
some other blossom. Back of all the plan that has been written 
upon, there lies between the lines the deeper one of wide pollina- 
tion, which perhaps both honeysuckle and honeysucker knew 
nothing about, and yet is essential for the well-being of each, and 
succeeds so well in the great struggle entailed upon all living 
things." 
THE REDWOOD AND FOG. 
As is well known, the redwoods occur in the fog-belt of the 
northern half of California and are confined in a markedly re- 
fstricted manner to those portions of the coast mountain ranges, 
such as ravines, which, on account of favoring topographical con- 
ditions, the fog may reach. The restriction of the distribution to 
so narrow a zone, is, perhaps, not due so much to the negative 
factor, the conservation of moisture already present, as to the pos- 
itive one, the actual precipitation of water from the fog. \Miile 
this, without question, is an important factor in the total precipita- 
tion in any region subject to fog, it becomes very much more 
marked, I am convinced in that region where the redwood forests 
are found. The reason for this lies in the character of the foliage 
of the redwood. Because the leaves of the redwood are small and 
