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Boll-worms, {Heliotlm armigera.) Attacked cotton squares in Critten- 

 den, Arkansas ; they were not numerous. 



Colton caterpillars, {Anomis xylincB.) Are very dubiously reported in 

 Muscogee, Georgia ; a germ of this insect was seen in Rapides, Louisi- 

 ana, June 15. Cotton-flies, probably the perfected insect, appeared in 

 great numbers in one field in Marion, Mississippi. Cotton-lice {Aphi- 

 des) were seen in Troup, Georgia. 



Hessian-flies, [Cccidomyia destructor. { Baltimore, Maryland, and Law- 

 rence, Missouri. 



Wheat-midge, (Diplosis tritici.) Tazewell, Virginia, and Bracken and 

 Anderson, Kentucky. 



Bud-worms. Gloucester, Virginia ; Moore, North Carolina ; Claren- 

 don, South Carolina; and Conecuh, Alabama. 



Tohacco-u'orjns, (Macrosila Carolina and M. quinquemaculata.) Caswell, 

 North Carolina ; Cabell, West Virginia ; Adair, Bracken, Grant, Ed- 

 monson, and Trimble, Kentucky; Vinton, Ohio. They also attacked 

 potatoes in Antelope, Nebraska, and Barton, Kansas. 



Miscellaneous. — A slender, slate-colored bug, probably a species of 

 Cantharis, attacked potatoes in Greenwood, Kansas. Undescribed in- 

 sects troubled the corn in Hillsborough, New Hampshire ; Pitt, North 

 Carolina; Wayne, Georgia ; Harrison, Mississippi; Des Moines, Iowa. 

 In Caroline, Maryland, innumerable green lice {Aphis avenie) sucked 

 the milk of the wheat-grains in the milky stage. Baltimore County 

 was visited with a variety of insects troublesome to the horticulturist. 

 In Dauphin, Pennsylvania, an undescribed insect ate the inside of the 

 wheat-grains, leaving only the hull, which fell to the ground. Buffalo- 

 gnats {Simulidw) troubled domestic animals very seriousl.y in Powhatan, 

 Virginia. The grass army-worm {Leucania unipuncta) appeared in 

 Knox, Tennessee. In Crawford, Indiana, a yellow bug, laying a bunch 

 of yellow eggs on the leaves, injured early potatoes. 



Our correspondent in Poweshiek, Iowa, says that Paris-green, applied 

 in the same way as to destroy Colorado beetles, will destroy the eight- 

 spotted forester, {Alyphia octomaculata,) so destructive to the grape-vines 

 of the West. This remedy, however, is somewhat dangerous ; it may 

 poison the fruit. The effects of wholesale destruction of birds is now 

 seen in the devastation of insects in different sections. 



BOTANICAL NOTES. 



By Dr. Geo. Vasev, Botajiist. 



Poisonous plajnts — loco and kattle-weed. — In the monthly 

 report for October, 1873, we gave some account of a poisonous plant, 

 called loco, which grows in California, and is sometimes destructive to 

 sheep and cattle which feed upon it. We there stated that the plant 

 was a species of Astragalus. We have recently received specimens from 

 Mrs. J. S. Whipple, of San Luis Obispo County, of what is called loco, 

 and also of a similar plant called rattle-weed. They are both species of 

 Astragalus, but the leaves and flowers are so much broken up that the 

 particular species cannot be accurately determined. They have smooth, 

 inflated pods, that called rattle- weed being about an inch and a half 

 long, thin and bladder-like. Mrs. Whipple writes : 



The description of the loco-plant given in the Monthly Keport was correct. It grows in 

 abundance in several counties in Lower California, and appears to be a natural production 



