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name to (listin*juish it. Miiiilaiiy tlit- wake-robin ought 
album ^cconlhvr as the Bower varies-. 
LONO-UYFCI) SKKDs.-Twerr . IM-. W. J. 
Beal buried seeds of various ^ - since 
has dug some of them up to i^ . Tni^-^ht 
be expected some kinds failed I. l a tew 
have continued to germinate iiim < a ,;I Li:e end of 
twenty-five years one may still obtain plants of pigweed 
{Amarnnthus retro flexiu^), black mustard { Brassicfi 
nigra), pepper-grass {Lepidivm Virginicum), evening 
primrose {(JEnothera biennis), purslane {Portulaca olcra- 
cea), chickweed {Stellaria meftin) and seseral others. The 
experiments need to l)e carried further to determine the 
maximum length that seeds will retain their germinating 
power. We recommend the exjieriment to our younger 
readers. Older ones miglit find themselves in the position 
of the man w^ho, hearing that parrots live to be two 
hundred years old, bought one intending to keep it anti 
find out for himself 
Cou)R OF Flowers Loc.xlitv.— In ?tdf}itioii to 
what was said recently about the way in which the red 
locality, it may be noted that Kerner in the "Natural 
Historj.- of Plants "gives several instances of this kind. In 
the Alps a bell wort {Campanula trachelium) has white 
flowers in one district and blue in another. The h>ng- 
spurred violet ( 1 7o/a calcarnta) has blue flowers in one 
Melittis mt'lisopbyllum has white flowers in the southern 
