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them I found in each several very small yellow grubs; and in one instance 
a white one, whieh appeared to be of the same species, merely —— in 
colour. They were exceedingly like the grabs which ha d caused the 
wee —— in the Cardamine; but whether of the same species 
la sufficient entomologist to determine. The eggs of the insect 
he flow 
young state. ose buds in which the eggs had been deposited never 
expanded, but grew into bladders, at first green, but gradually assuming 
the usual purple colour of the Vetch, forming a safe nidus for the grubs. 
The calyx was very little changed in colour, but was rather more inflated 
than usual, and in consequence rather die membranous. The standard 
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and e a hollow bag was formed. ‘The grubs within, which varied in 
nu rom one to five or six, seem to feed on the juices of the stamens 
and pistil, and those organs were, in consequence, stunted v abortive. 
Not every bunch of flowers on a plant, and not eid im a bunch, 
was — but these remarkable insect homes were sufficiently 
numerous to be Pes conspicuous even at a voisin distance. — 
ROBERT a igu 
Dırsacus sTRIGOSUS, Willd idR abs very large plants of this were 
shown me by Mr. Naylor last July, by the side of a ditch close to the 
Thames, at Kew; but were mown down with the grass just after they 
came into flower. D. stri ler Sus » a near relation to our D. pilosus, with 
CALCEOLARIA MEXICANA, H. & B.—In ‘Science Gossip’ for 1868, 
p. 19, Mr. J. C. Hu dson gives an account of his discovery of 
* Calceolaria gracilis; at Bradford Abbas, obi] and a further note ot 
the subject, by Professor Buckman, appears in "the same periodica cal for 
ecember, . Ihave sraon specimens from both gentlemen, and 
identify them with C. a, H. & B. The plant being in some 
measure established, the following particulars of its occurrence, le 
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in a barley-field about half a mile ann Bradford ow on a light sandy 
soil. Here it ripened seed, and continued to flower freely during i 
mild ^ne of 1868. It was not again observed until October, Eu / 
braces ene " roti the side of the slope in the oat stubble " 
FunTHER Nores on Cuwpumawao (p. 107).—I had lately the 
opportunity of examining specimens of Cundurango, and a fruit said t9 
belong to this plant, which had been obtained directly from the Ecuadorean 
Government, y Dr ^ | ini 
Venezuela. Th 
