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§ 101. New Comer.—I was handed the other day by a friend, a 
plant from the neighborhood of Providence, which Sereno Watson 
identifies as Crepis aurantiaca. I have never heard of it in this 
vicinity before. Mr. Watson informs me that it is becoming intro- 
duced at the East. W. W. Baizey. 
§ 102. Connecticut Valley Botanical Society.—From a notice in 
the Springfield Republican we learn that this Society had a very 
animated meeting at Mt. Holyoke Seminary, Wednesday, June 10. 
Prof. Biscoe demonstrated the course of the pollen tubes in Vinca 
and Apocynum, I believe, for the first time. I hope this accom- 
plished investigator will be able to demonstrate the origin of the 
glands, which I was led to suspect come from the anthers, a suspi- 
cion in which I found Schleiden had anticipated me. Schleiden, 
however, from a study of Gomphocarpus and Hoya, almost con- 
cludes that they are derived from the winged appendages of the 
anthers ; it seemed to me, that, in Apocynum, they originated in the: 
lower portion of the contents of the anther cell, 7.¢., were disinte- 
grated pollen. Schleiden remarks that the investigation is one of 
the most difficult. (Bull., Vol. IIL, $§ 81,89, 95, Vol. IV., $$ 3, 33.) _ 
The fact that Apocynum captures insects was well known. The re- 
lation of this tothe fertilization of the plant I believe was first pointed 
out by myself, though I found that Schleiden had already detected 
and figured the true stigmatic surface and tissue. Thenotice of the 
metting seems to ascribe more than his share to Prof. Biscoe, a 
misapprehension for which I am assured he is not responsible. F 
may here state that last summer, in Hamilton Co, Mii = found 
some quite large lepidoptera captured by Apocynum androsemifo- 
lum ; the name of the species, kindly given me by J. A. Linter, 
through Prof. D. S. Martin, is Ctenucha Virginica, Charp., (@lau- 
copis Latreillana, Kirby.) WS 
_ $103. Darlingtonia as a Fly trap.—A lady writes thatin Nevada 
City they use the leaves of Darlingtonia Californica in what 
_ may be a useful as well as ornamental way by placing them upon 
the tables, with alittle molasses smeared in the “throat” of the 
tube to attract the flies. W. B. 
53 Fulton St., N. Y. : 
§ 104, Errata.—in Mr. Austin’s Musci, § 91, p. 24, Plagiothecium 
Passaicense, 4th line, for “12-30 read “12-20;” Hylocomaium — 
Flemmingii, 5th and 6th lines, for “ad basis..... . subquadrato—” — 
read “ minute angusteque (ad basis an gulos subquadrato—”); for the 
sentence on the page read “ The coste are wholly distinct at the 
f se (wide apart and nearly parallel throughout).—g 94. Hysterium 
ibrisedum, 34 line after the word “ bent,” add “.0011' x.0004' (at 
the broad end.”) In April : ee ‘ont 
read “ plateau.” pril No., p. 18, § 86, |. 19, for “¢ plantatio 
oa eee 7D annum beginning with the January number. For the Botanical — 
rectory alone, 30 cents. Back volumes on hand. 
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