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plant must rest some time before a second disturbance will produce 
D. 8. KELLICOTT. 
Bees mutilating flowers. 
ing to me, having been interested in me subject myself. I believe 
it is considered safe to plant two colors of balsams (Impatiens balsam 
in adjacent rows without their mixing. i ied to take it for 
granted, I sought the reason. Upon examination I found the anthers were 
closely pressed to the stigma, thus insuring self-fertilization without any 
outside help. Also, as the flower became double, the opening to the spur 
was entirely closed by petals. Humble-bees, in seeking for honey, were 
saw one visit the inside of the flower nor puncture a spur that had been 
€ai ower. 
Humble-bees, in getting the honey from Salvia splendens, enter the 
calyx and slit the corolla. This isa very interesting subject,and any one 
observing anything bearing on the subject would do well to make notes 
and send them for publication. E, 8. MILLER. 
Wading River, N. Y. 
CURRENT LITERATURE. 
Fossile Pflanzen aus der Albourskette, von Dr. A. Schenk. Bibliotheca Bo- 
tanica, Heft 6, 4to, pp. 14; pl. ix. Cassel : Theodor Fischer, 1887. 
The Albourskette, the locality from which the fossil plants herein 
abad, who submittted a small collection to Dr. H. R. rt for exami- 
nation, From this material Dr. Géppert identified (Schles. Gesell., 1860, 
re cycads. 
ons, Dr. Géppert 
coneluded these plant-bearing beds to be of Liassic age. Later Eichwald 
colleted from the same locality the species mentioned by 
disposal of Dr, Schenk was collected chiefly by Herr Tietze, 
Cinity of Hif, near Kaswin; from Tasch, which is between 
Asterabad; and from Mt. Siodshur, near Ah, This material was much 
