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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
The best known pine nut of the southwest is the seed of 
Pinus edulis, known as the pinon. It is highly prized by 
the Mexicans and the gathering of the Httle seeds is an im- 
portant industry of the Indians of Arizona and New Mexico, 
who dispose of them to the traders by tens of thousands of 
pounds during each autumn. 
Fort Defiance^ Ariz. 
NOTE AND COMMENT " 
Wanted. — Short notes of interest to the general bot- 
anist are always in demand for this department. Our readers 
are invited to make this the place of publication for their 
botanical items. It should be noted that the magazine is is- 
sued as soon as possible after the fifteenth of each month. 
A Large Head of Sunflower. — According to the Ash- 
land Gazette, the State of Maine holds the record for the 
largest head of the common sunflower. Last season there 
was raised in Millinocket, a flower-head of this species that 
measured fifty-six inches in circumference. The head just 
filled the top of a flour barrel. 
Galium Leaves That Are Not Leaves. — Those of our 
readers who have examined the cleavers {Galium) and other 
plants of simular structure in the Madder family, have doubt- 
less a pretty distinct impression that there are often four or 
six leaves at each node. This, however, is denied by Lord 
Avebury, in ''British Flowering Plants." He asserts that in 
all cases there are but two leaves at a node, and that the other 
two or four organs that appear to be leaves are, in reality, 
stipules. The leaves may be distinguished by the fact that 
they have buds in their axils as normal leaves do. When but 
