i io NOTES. 



Still the name was perhaps loosely used, and it is 

 highly probable that the flower to which Ovid refers, in 

 the passage which Lord Stanhope quotes, was the Snow- 

 flake or Leucoion (literally, " White Violet "). 



NOTE IT. 



ON THE AZALEA VISCOSA. 



I was much pleased to see my observations on the 

 Azalea as a fly-catcher confirmed by a subsequent para- 

 graph (October 3, 1874,) in the Gardeners' Chronicle. 

 It is interesting, and I now reprint it. 



AZALEA VISCOSA A FLY CATCHER. 



Under this heading Mr. W. \V. Bailey gives the follow- 

 ing observations in the current number of the American 

 Naturalist : 



"The many curious observations published of late in 

 regard to vegetable fly-catchers have opened my eyes to 

 such phenomena as are presented in my forest walks. As 

 is well known to all botanists, our sweet swamp Azalea 

 (Azalea viscosa) has its corolla covered on the outside 

 with innumerable clammy and glandular hairs. Each 

 hair is a prolongation of the cuticle, and is surmounted 

 by a purple and globular band. In the bud these hairs 

 appear to cover the whole surface of the flower, but when 

 the corolla expands they are seen to occupy the midrib 

 of the petals as well as the tube of the corolla. These 

 glandular hairs are efficacious fly-catchers, but what the 

 object is in thus securing insect prey I will not pretend 

 to state. I have been amusing myself, if any such 



