BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
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new plants, and leaves having petioles of two inches in length when fully 
grown. I have come to the conclusion that I have been hoodwinked, and that 
very unusual prey has this time been a victim of Venus’s Fly-trap! Is it not 
possible that the Dionzea grew in close and intimate connection with the roots 
nd stems of some companion, aud that it is the foster plant which flourishes, 
while the Fly-trap perished ?—Euizanetu L, H. Writs, Charleston, S. C. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Dr. J. G. BAKer has described, in the Journal of Botany, six new species of 
ferns from Costa Rica, collected by Mr. P. G. Harrison. They are equally 
divided among Asplenium, Nephrodium, and Polypodium. 
CHINA seems to be yielding much new material to the authorities at Kew. 
It is somewhat of a pity that the native plants of China have felt for so long a. 
time the pressure of man’s presence before they could be studied. It will be 
hard to eliminate the human factor and get a true view of the indigenous flora, 
although Chinese customs would prevent much inroad of foreign plants. In 
the December Journal of Botany Dr. Hance describes two new epiphytic orchids, 
and four Cwsalpiniew. Among the latter a new Gymnocladus is especially notable, 
A few years ago our North American G, Canadensis, L., was the only represen- 
tative of the genus; then G. Chinensis, Baill., a Chinese species, was discovered : 
and now a second Chinese species, @. Williamsi, Hance, is described, and curi- 
ously enough it is much more nearly related to the American form than to G- 
Chi A new Gleditschia is also,one of the four. 
Rev. B. Scorrecutnt has described a new genus of Rubiaceous trees from 
the Malayan Peninsula. It is called Creaghia, and belongs to the tribe Cincho- 
nee. This type species is about 40 feet high, and bears the name of C. fagrceaopsis: 
Ix roe DecemBer number of the American Monthly Microsepical Journal the 
editor makes a complaint that Mr. J. Kruttschnitt’s work on fertilization of 
the ovule has not attracted the attention it deserves. It is rather sweeping, to 
Say the least, to observe that botanists have ignored it without giving it the 
takes to prove that the descent of the pollen tube to the ovule is a myth he con- 
