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ancient stories of the Heliotrope with our Helianthus, simply because it looks . 
like the sun, is all there isin it, T have, however, shown, in the Proceedings 
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on opening, and that it turns, not with the sun, but eastwardly as the head pro- 
towards maturity. These observations were made on a cultivated plant. 
and I kept count of all I could well fix my eyeson. These also, with rare ex- | 
ceptions, faced horizontally to the southeast, The matter is one of some inter- : 
, and those who may have opportunities to watch Helianthi, as they open — 
from day to day, would be pleased, I think, in making notes.—THos. MEEHAN. | 
A Specific for Snake-bite.— While rambling among the mountains of — 
Western North Carolina on a summer jaunt, we were startled to find that the 
inhabitants of those primitive wilds regarded the bite of one of the deadliest 
foes to mankind, the rattlesnake, with searcely more concern than they did the 
sting of a bee or wasp. Strolling leisurely, sypsy-like, through that fresh, pice 
turesque and beautiful region, we were halted one August morning in front of 
the toll-keeper’s gate, at the entrance of the turnpike road over the grandch i 
of mountains known as Nantahala. A number of men came out of the hou 
ie Gn tne. in its near neighborhood, whose cymes of crimson flame contrast 
ed brilliantly with the panicles of delicate, white, fimbriate blossoms of the 
former. 
both streams being thickly set with Hemlock, © 
Rhododendron, Azalea, Laurus, and Kalmia latifolia, the S. stellata grew in the 
damp, shady nooks beneath their branches, in rich profusion, and with finer 
fuller panicles than I had observed elsewhere. The S, Virginica is of somewhat 
