600 Scerentific Intelligence. 
cluding Obione. The Flora Rossica aia 20 species. But 
Mr. Watson, as the result of the first comprehensive study of the 
materials, has brought the number of our species up to 40. That 
is, if we exclude the introduced weeds, more than half our Cheno- 
podiace belong to this genus. Copies of this monograph can be 
had from the American Naturalist Literary Agency at see 
A. 
Sarracenia variolaris.—The suggestion in a recent sank 
of ‘thie Journal (April, 1874, p. 442), that the pitchers of this spe- 
cies and the way in which insects are caught in them should be 
carefully scrutinized by those who have this plant within their 
reach, has already begun to be acted upon. Dr. J. F. Mellichamp, 
of Bluffton, South Carolina, an excellent observer, has alrea 
made some very interesting observations upon this species, which 
lee in his neighborhood, and has there, even in the first days 
of May, een some of its pitchers. "His observations and 
ace 
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may be well to record at once some results to which his first obser- 
vations point, * se Smpeaeretaencess in a private letter,—which are sub- 
stantially as fol 
The ~ ret ar the tubular leaves of S. variolaris and the 
Mari of the sugary secretion pe the rim, as stated by Dr. 
matter with —— flew away after sip ing their fill, to all appear- 
ance unharmed. On the peng ae me thinks that the wate ery 
liquid in which the insects ‘ar and macerated possesses 
anzsthetic properties ; that neta ay brief immersion in it, 
and when permitted to walk about in a thin layer of it, “ were 
ssa killed—as sey first supposed—or at any rate stupified 
or paralyzed in from half a minute to three or five minutes,” bas 
most of them would revive very gradually in the course ‘of a 
ror so, It is important to repeat and scrutinize ov ex- 
poaten) 
; , 12. Sorts Hoopes, the last survivor of the old school of ‘the 
Botanists of Chester County, Penn., of which picitate 
