6 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
tion, if it were a problem to construct à 
plant with reference to entrapping insects, 
I cannot conceive of a form and organiza- 
tion better adapted to secure that end, 
than are found in the Dionee muscipula. 
I therefore deem it no credulous inference, 
that its leaves are constructed for that spe- 
cific object, whether insects subserve the 
purpose of nourishment to the plant or 
not. It is no objection to this view, that 
they are subject to blind accident, and 
sometimes close upon straws, as well as 
insects, It would be a curious vegetable, 
indeed, that had a faculty of distinguishing 
ies, and recoiled at the touch of one, 
while it quietly submitted to violence from 
another. Such capricious sensitiveness is 
not a property of the vegetable kingdom. 
The spider's net is spread to ensnare flies, 
yet it catches whatever falls upon it; and 
the ant-lion is roused from his hiding-place 
by the fall of a pebble: so much are in- 
sects, also, subject to the blindness of ac- 
ident." 
t rd greater 
publicity to these descriptions, and to give 
a place in our Journal 
AMSINCKIA intermedia : 
Species intermedia 
A. lycopsioidem inter et A. spectabilem ; 
a priore dignoscitur insertione staminum, 
^ posteriore corollis longe minoribus et 
presertim corolle tubo non (ut in illa) ad 
faucem plicis intrusis semiclausa.—Hab. 
cum sequente specie circa coloniam Ru- 
thenorum Ross in portu Bodega Nova 
California. 
A. spectabilis ; corolla fauce glabra pli- 
cis intrusis semiclausa, limbo longitudine 
tubi, staminibus ad faucem insertis. Spe- 
cles pulchritudine florum insignis atque 
distinctissima. Corolla aurea, limbo 6 lin. 
in diametro, ad faucem plicis 5, squamulas 
simulantibus aucta. 
BazEni1a. F. et M. Calathidium multiflo- 
rum, heterogamum, radiatum. Periclinii 
squame (sub) 10, equales, plane, biseria- 
le. Flosculi disci hermaphroditi 5-den- 
tati. Flosculi. radii feminei ligulati, 
fertiles, uniseriati. Achsmnia omnia con- 
formia, fusiform p tet g * 
levia, glabra, calva, obtusa, areoli termi- 
nali parva. Clinanthium conicum, nudum. 
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Genus et tribu um, Cas 
optime distinctum, Lustheniæe proximum, 
sed in nostro periclinii squamæ liberæ, in 
illa, pro more Othonne, conferruminate ; 
Madia (Biotia, Cass.) differt habitu, cli- 
nantheo plano, nec non squamis periclinii 
et clinanthii navicularibus; Villanova, 
eg. et Unzia, L. fil. differunt periclinio 
pentaphyllo, clinanthio plano, flosculis 
paucis aliisque notis; genus Coinogyne, 
Less., etiamsi notis aliquot cum nostro 
convenit, habitu, periclinii squamis inæ- 
qualibus, achæniis sulcatis et corollis flos- 
culorum fæmineorum bilabiatis diversis- 
simum., 
B. chrysostoma ; annua gracilis erecta 
ramosa, pilis simplicibus adspersa, sub- 
glabra, ramis elongatis apice nudis, foliis 
oppositis sessilibus linearibus integerrimis, 
calathidiis terminalibus solitariis magnitu- 
dine et forma illis Melampodii ovatifolit, 
periclinii phyllis late ovatis erecto-patulis, 
flosculis aureis, radii ligulatis indivisis vel 
Subtridentatis, antherarum tubo aureo, 
stigmatibus (stylorum ramis) cono supera- 
tis, acheniis parvis levibus nitidulis gris- 
eis. Hab. Circa coloniam Ruthenorum 
Ross, in sinu Bodega Nova California. 
Diximus in honorem viri eruditissimi, 
doctissimi K. E. de Baer Academie Im- 
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