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Pentapanax ; besides these were obtained new species of Helicia, Triste 
nia, Morinda, Eugenia, Fagodea, and some others. The remarkable 
N NOTICING in the American Journal of Science, Warming’s “ Ento- 
mophilous Flowers in Arcsic. Regions,” Dr. Gray remarks: “ Greenland 
is very poor In insects, especially of insects which perform an important 
generally. Dr. Warming undertook a careful comparative study " 
northern flowers, to learn whether those in Greenland were identical iD 
floral biology with the same species in Europe. In many no di ces 
r d, but i few certain modifications were th 
Greenland flowers which rendered them more adapted to self-fertilizaion 
than t of the same species on the European continent, where 
appropriate visiting insects are more abundant. In answer to the que 
tion whether the attractiveness of these blossoms for insects remain unalt- 
e odors were feebler, the size of corolla less, and the colors not 80 vivid 
as in the same species on the continent. As the entomophilous flowers 
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