Some attention is just now being paid in Europe to the singular circum-cumstance of almost identical variations from normal specific forms appearing simultaneously in widely separated localities. This has long been noted in this country and the facts placed on record. The form of the bird's-foot violet, Viola pedata, which has the two upper petals purple or crimson, as in the pansy, is often found in various parts of our country. It has also been recorded that the form of blackberry with very large heart-shaped leaves is very local yet widely scattered. A curious variety of raspberry - once raised to the dignity of a species by Prof. Peck as Rubus neglectus - occasionally appears as isolated plants in localities a long distance apart. The facts are of great importance to the evolutionist. If species are only varieties more advanced, and if identical varieties will appear from different individuals a long way separated, there is no necessity for the belief that all species sprung from a solitary individual in the usual sense of the word, and then spread from one common center.

Identical species may have had several home centers. - Independent.