46 The Botanical Gazette. [February, 
common elsewhere, as on the petioles of the passion a 
on the leaves of the larch where bees busily oir heeneal 
among the floral organs is a not surprising result of “a 
of the currents which nourish anthers and ovules. ae 
cretions at first perhaps not abundant, nor perept yo aa 
will be gradually increased and improved by neato " 
co-working of plant and insect. Stages in the evo 
orchids for 
and - butterflies. 
es * 
ing that many a flower is born to blush unseen. The be 
who have made j 
t blush will surely be there to see. 
Ithaca, N. Y. [Concluded next month. | 
Sarre ee 
Mt. Kataadn and its flora. 
F, LAMSON-SCRIBNER. f 
In August, 1874, a party of gentlemen from Bangor an¢ | 
Orono, under the di 
Maine State Colle 
