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side at the base, and a little imbricated over the stem; leaves of 
the upper plane small, ovate, with a long cusp. Spikes short, 
square, 4 lin. diam.; bracts ovate-cuspidate, strongly keeled. 
Hab. Eastern Cuba, C. Wright 1822! 
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SHORT NOTES. 
Totypetta prouirera Leonh. 1x Cames. ann Hunts.——This rare 
species grows in the parishes of Welche’s Dam and Benwick, in 
D Erica cinerea. — Miiller, in his recently translated 
work on the Fertilisation of Flowers, in recording (p. 877) the 
visits of various bees to Erica Tetralix, states that the honey-bee 
insects of the same kind repeated the operation. The action was 
rather boring than biting, and was comparable to pushing an awl 
without twisting through a thin deal-board. In some cases a dis- 
tinct sound was heard, as when paper is pricked witha pm. am 
