462 Voi. I. N. 2C. R. J. Anderson 





M. Fleig has shown that less than 34 p. e. of forma tes 

 injected into the blood are transforraed and less than 44 

 p. e. if taken into the alimentary canal. These like some 

 other organic salts appear in urine as carbonates. The above 

 note is chiefly in connection with the author's paper read 

 at the XV. Congrès international de Mèdecine, Lisbon, 1906 

 and bis former paper in Kuehne's Untersuchungen (Heidel- 

 berg.) 



« In 1901 a plant allied to the pumpkin was brought from 

 the desert of Sonora, and since then it has been kept, wi- 

 thout watering, in a strange climate. The plant grows lea- 

 ves and perfeets its flowers and seed during the time coter- 

 ininous with the wet season of its native home, and stores 

 up water in its gouni, the rest of the plant dries up. The 

 grourd is protected by a comparati vely hard shell so that 

 no evaporation can take place. The plant, however, as time 

 goes on remembers the rainy season of six weeks, and wa- 

 k 59 up again in due course, follows the routine and then 

 dries up again ». 



