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many other classes of insects have, each class, bred the flowers they 

 love best. 



Dr. Mueller is abundantly able to theorize on this subject, and 

 his views, so far as they go, will command the assent of most persons. 

 But like all the Darwinians, he confounds survival or preservation 

 of characters, with the origin of characters. On this subject Prof. 

 Cope has the following : "I would suggest whether the 

 mutilations and strains they [plant-using animals] have for long periods 

 inflicted on the flowering organs may not, as in some similar cases in 

 the animal kingdom, have originated peculiarities in structure." — 

 American Naturalist. 



South-western Plants. — Prof. F. L. Harvey, of Fayetteville, 

 Ark., has sent a list of plants that were collected upon a recent trip 

 from Fayetteville to Neosho, Missouri. The list numbers about 120 

 species, most of them such as are common farther north and east. 

 Of course, introduced species go wherever man goes, and such may 

 be expected to appear in every list of plants, and the interest attached 

 to them comes chiefly from the fact that they are spreading just as 

 was expected. Species peculiar to any region often are unexpected 

 species, and hence a list of indigenous plants is always interesting 

 to look over. We have no space, of course, to reproduce Prof. 

 Harvey's complete list, for bare lists make dry reading at best, un- 

 less the reader is looking for exchanges. The mention of a few spe- 

 cies, however, may be interesting. We note the following : Isopy- 

 rura biternatum, Corydalis crystallina, Arabis Ludoviciana, Scleria 

 aurea, Viola tricolor, var. arvensis, Arenaria Pitcheri, Lathyrus 

 pusillus. Astragalus distortus, A. Mexicanus, Zizia integerrima, 

 Fedia radiata, F. longiflora, Androsace occidentalis, Collinsia vio- 

 lacea, Pentstemon tubiflorus, Amsonia Tabernse montana, Trillium 

 sessile, var. Nuttallii, Ranunculus sceleratus, Corydalfs aurea, var. 

 micrantha, Heuchera villosa. 



Narcissus Canariensis. — E. H. Krelage and Son, Nurserj^- 

 men, of Haarlem, (Holland) send out a circular advertising the above 

 species for sale. The circular consists principally of a description of 

 the species taken from a work entitled "The Narcissus ; its history 

 and culture." It is the smallest flowered form in the whole group, 

 the dried flowers being half an inch across. It is not in cultivation 

 yet, the Royal Herbarium, Kew, containing but a solitary dried spec- 

 imen. In the month of June the above firm received a consignment 

 of bulbs and will fill orders that are immediately sent to them. As 

 the plant is exceedingly scarce, even where it is found, it is hardly 

 probable another opportunity of securing bulbs will be offered. 



