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214 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
A Rose astray.—On acommon climbing double red rose in my yard there 
is a sprout, on which, at about the middle, grows a whorl of four bracts, sub- 
tending a cluster of ordinary petals,‘giving the appearance of a stem growing 
through the center of a rose. The bracts are oblanceolate and toothed.--E. B. 
HArceEr, Oxford, Conn. 
Geographical Distribution of Piants.—In Harper’s Magazine, aaa 
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timalarial virtues. This circumstance is illustration how the acts of 
“crank” can serve as a factor in the geographical distribution of plants. 
The ox-eye daisy, now so fashionablg a flower, is said to be springing up oP 
the lines of our Western railroads, the flowers carried by the ladies from the 
East until wilted, and then thrown from the car window, furnishing the seed 
supply for the distribution, ae 
In Northern Maine this same ox-eye daisy has secured strong foothold, 1n- 
troduced through the former purchase of bale hay from other localities, for the 
feeding of logging teams in the woods in winter, at times when the local erup 
was short.—K. Lewis Sturtevant, Geneva, N.Y. =. 
Dionwa muscipula.—I am much puzzled by a plant which I have been 
of Wilmington, N. C., a Diona muscipula, the first and only one I have eile 
Seen, consisting of a small bunch of rounded leaves, and a number of ¥ 
away, and one by one the traps died also, leaving no trace save in the 
ue cordate, dentate leaves, which flourished vigorously, and have contin 
increase, sending out runners, which have taken root all round the parent P 
