149 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



45 min. the submarginal tentacles on one side of the leaf were much 



inflected, so as to touch the specimen. 

 60 " the same as the last, except the upper submarginal tentacles 



begin to inflect. 

 90 •' marginal t. beginning to inflect. 

 2 hrs. only a slight change. 

 2}4 " the submarginal t. nearly all inflected, and these nearest the 



sul)Stance touching it. 

 31^ " slight change among the marginal t. 

 18 " the submarginal and marginal tentacles inflected so as to 

 touch the specimen on one side; the remainder inflecting 

 slowly. 

 24 " change only slight. 

 38 " all the submarginal inflected and touching the substance, 



and. also, nearly all the marginal tentacles. 

 48 " all the tent.icles inflectei, touching the substance; the edges 



of the tentacles are also slightly inflected 

 66 " tentacles and edi^es of the leaf closely clasping the speci- 

 men. 

 123 " the same as the last, except the edges of the leaf are begin- 

 ning to reflex. 

 159 " edges of the leaf reflexing slowly, hut al! of the t., except a 



few marginal ones, are still inflected. 

 166 " leaf graduall)' opening. 

 216 " leaf nearly exjianded, but most of the t. still inflected s- me- 



what. 

 302 " tentacles reflexing rapidly. 

 312 " tentacles, bfjih disk, marginal and submarginal, on one side 



much reflexed. 

 326 " tentacles apparently dried not much reflexed from the last. 

 408 " po change, excepting that the ones already partly reflexed 



are more so. 

 528 " tentacles considerahly dried ; leaf without color; substance 



dried ; no secretion. 

 600 " leaf and tentacles still somewhat inflected, but all parts 



a[)parenily gradiia'ly opening. 

 648 " same as the last; a white mould present on the leaf; tenta- 

 cles, esi:)ecially the ends of some, dry ; no secretion. 

 672 " no mould jjresent ; one side of the leaf dry and dead. 

 768 " leaf completely dried and dead. - W. K. Higll-Y, Ann Ar- 

 bor^ Mich. 



Brown Univkrsity Hkrb.ariuim. — In addition to the classical 

 herbarium of the late Ste])hen T. OIney, bequeathed to Brown Uni- 

 versity, together with a fund for its increase and for the maintenance 

 of the botanical library, the college has, within a few weeks, received 

 from Mr. James L. Bennett, of Providence, a gift of his herbarium of 

 13,000 species. This valuable collection has been amassed during 

 thirty years of unremitting labor as a side occupation. In it are rep- 



