Botany and Zoology. 381 
and the same is 
or the 
oO ; 
grasses and four or five Dicotyledons are coroliferous, and most 
of them insect-visited. sata ee 
8. Canadian Timber-trees, their Distribution and Preservation ; 
xy A, T. Drummonp.—An instructive pamphlet, published at 
0 t 
which in Canada, as elsewhere, are the crying evil. The fact that 
the forest, may also be considered. A. G. 
9 Indian Corn; by E. Lewis Sturtevant, M.D, A paper 
presented to the Annual meeting of the New York State Agri- 
cultural Society, January 1879, and reprinted from its 38th 
ort.—T 
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there seems to be no proof that the plant had reached Turkey 
before the time of Columbus. The principal varieties of Indian 
variety in directly altering the grain of another ; and this influ- 
ence is said to affect not only the coats of the grain but the nature 
and appearance of the kernel. AG. 
10. Death of General Munro.—W ith sadness we hear that Gen. 
Wm. Munro, of the British army, the most accomplished Agrostol- 
Ogist of our day, died at his residence near Taunton, on the 29th 
day of J anuary. He had reached the age of about 64 years, and 
