278 Scientific Intelligence. 
America, is Platanthera die seep sc of which the present writer 
craves Icelandi ¢ specim 
ertilization of various Flowers by Insects is the title of an 
original paper, enema ae Dr. Wm. Ogle to the on iow number 
trivances desc bids as also of 1 the views suggested, some are not 
novel, the writer, as he states, not being fa fakes with the botani- 
cal literature of the subject (and this is most evident): but the 
whole article is well worthy of much attention, and would have 
been most interesting to the general reader—the narrative being 
remarkably clear—except that it is so disfigured by typographical 
errors as to almost unintelligible to ordinary readers; indeed, 
the proofs would seem not to have been revised at all. The most 
interesting and original portion is that which relates to the fertili- 
zation in the Heath family, and to the use of the awns or appen- 
dages on the back of the anthers in Heaths, UvaUrei Vaccinium, 
&c., by which the bee in sucking the flower topples or moves the 
etnies that, ame bees have learned to get at eh nectar 
which case it is instinet in them, after all. easibet, ao tows vefined, 
is — al habit. 
Eléments de Botanique et de Physiologie — suivis Pune 
petite Flore simple et facile pour aider a découvrir les noms 
ogo les plus communs du Canada : par PAbbE C Gere Brunet, 
repa of. 
for ke Canada, where French is still the ior of instruc- 
tion. It is illustrated by wood-euts mostly from vy ood draw- 
ings by the author’s own hands; and the structural and and physio- 
logical part, and also the little flora, seem to be as clear as they 
well can be in the diminutive space ‘the : ogsepiy3 ee that 
Abies Canadensis is put with Balsam-Fir into a genus in which 
the scales are said to fall from the axis, which i is an ree over- 
