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NATURE NOTES 
devoid of spots, this one is very distinctly punctated. It is apparently a 
coalescence of two flowers, with lobes rather more deeply cut than usual ; the 
stamens are eight instead of four, the general appearance that of a Canterbury 
bell, for which it was at first mistaken by the owner. When I saw it on July 17 
it was rather withered, but retained its shape and position. 
Addison Crofton. 
Settle, Craven, 
July 18, 1901. 
[This is the same variation recorded in our pages last year, which, as was 
then pointed out, was perpetuated by the late M. Vilmorin. — Ed. N.N.'\ 
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