130 Scientific Intelligence. 
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essing the power of movement on contact, a tendril can 
ing bush, and thus always keep in the full light; twiners, on the con- 
trary, are best fitted to ascend bare stems, and generally have to start in 
the shade. 
that still twine, but are aided by clasping petioles or tendrils, generally 
make more open spires than those made by simple twiners.” (p. 11 
the revolving power, on which most climbers depend, is inherent, though 
undeveloped, in almost every plant in the vegetable kingdom.” = (p. 1 .) 
Mr, in somewhere throws out the remark that the larger numbe! 
and the most perfectly organized climbing plants, as of the scandent anl- 
mals, belong to one country, tropical America. 
- In abruptly closing these extracts and brief commentaries, we would 
add, that the Linnean Society has issued a separate reprint of this 
charming treatise, thus opening it to a wider circle of reade A 
2. Catalogue of Plants found in Oneida County [New York] and v- 
cinity ; by Joun A. Patnz, Jr. Fro of the 
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est 
Pennsylvania; and in special instances even overpassing these limits. 
(species and varieties) are the 
being additions to the Flora and later catal < 
the State by Dr. Torrey. But a good many of these, and especially ae 
the twenty-six Carices, are such as de upon difference of views as to 
species, some of which have been settled during the many years that 
