1893.) Notes and News. 151 
: OPEN LETTERS. 
Sategory of carnivorous plants.” I intended to make plain to all 
teaders that my interpretation of the facts was a purely tentative one. 
{am not yet sure, however, that Polyporus applanatus does not digest 
the unfortunate flies. I distinctly stated that the production of new 
case. It is not the general growth that encloses the 
wed putting forth of hyphz from the interior of the 
me a the stimulation of the fly’s presence. This 
The little flies moe and still appears to me to be notewort y 
hice i at I examine really did “lie flat upon the surface 
“ontractions of eh Perhaps this was due to prolonged tetanic 
© Mr. Cook _c.~ iDteresting muscles in their legs. But I leave that 
Conway MacMi.ian, University of Minnesota. 
od 
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NOTES AND NEWS. 
MR. J. G oe 
Of the species pei Publishing in the Gardeners’ Chronicle asynopsis 
"or nn 2 
Lancaster HELLER has published a preliminary list of the lichens 
Aone ‘county, Penn, 
etn “ve . 
- Sehtivation in Eo! (ereus senilis (“old man cactus”) which has been in 
- Mches in al) that © a about sixty years has grown only about three 
Pictioli, wha : Plants against snails has been studied by L. 
: Gls, Taphides, n° grat such substances as tannic acid, latex, essential 
Tin » furnish the chief protection. 
intends ©? THE comi 
| to go thoroung season Mr. Charles W. Armstrong, of Toronto, 
Eats sets ar ok Y into the flora of York county, Ca 
