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pose there, is obvious. That more commonly they do not perish 
by drowning in S. flava is equally clear. While all the lower an 
y 
gradually attenuated part of the tube is filled with dead flies in 
which they are often immersed. 
A main object of the present publication of this note is to ask 
ea. 
wholly beset with unusually stiff deflexed bristles. I have had no 
full-grown specimens of this season to examine; and from analogy 
I should expect the sugary secretion, if any, to appear only im 
warm weather. A. G 
The scattered bristles on the surface of the trap, through which 
the sensitiveness is manifested, secrete no liqui r is it 
disclaimer appended to some of them by the English editor, viz: 
that they are opposed to all the established phenomena of plant- 
life, as known to English observers. 
11 “ig? 
, Under ftosa Kamschatica is an important discussion of the spe 
cies and its whole history, identifying it with R. rugosa Thunb., te 
which also belongs R. ferox Lind., and the recent R. Regeliant 
of the Illustration Horticole. It is the Hed gehog Rose of the old 
English gardens. 
osa blanda. is also critically discussed, and on the whole f. 
Jraxinifolia of Gmelin is thought to be a cultivated form of it. 
