NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 45 
developed from these adnate leaves, under each fascicle of branchlets (form- 
ing 3-leaved fascicles). This he thought demonstrated in a more remark- 
able manner than any VERE Laid di he had yet made, the soundness of 
his former deductions. 
alled attention to the value of these adnate leaves in affording spe- 
co E They differed in form and other points nearly as much 
m one another as the leaves of other tribes or plants. He exhibited 
living specimens of Pinus Austriaca, P. sylvestris, P. maritima, P. rigida, 
P. pungens, P. mitis and P. glabra Walk., to illustrate this. Some were 
costate, some regularly plane, others neue linear, ovate, obtuse, 
acute, regular, oblique, spathulate, g ribbous, e etc. inus glabra, which 
had been confused with P. mitis, could re den be distinguished by these 
almost inappreciable difference founded on the old time leaves (fascicled 
branchlets) and cones 
Nores FROM CuicaGo. — Chicago has a flourishing young botanical 
society, the members of which meet on the first and third Saturday of 
each mont They have engraved upon their official se eal the Dioscorea 
sta considérine it the prettiest native twiner in this part of the 
country. 
s flowers of the prairies are no prettier than the flowers of New 
York and Massachusetts. e variety is not so great; but on account of 
the absence of trees and shrubs some species are represented by very, 
large numbers of specimens, making a grander display which is noticed 
by everybody. — W. J. B. 
PHOTOGRAPHY IN Botany. — To illustrate venation and the nature of 
ho 
from a specimen of one of the coriaceous-leaved oaks of the Men paee 
which was truly wonderful in its rendering. — A. GRAY, in American 
Journal of Science. 
Photography in Entomology will prove of great je especially in 
representing, with accuracy, the venation of the wings o the Hymenop- 
tera, iy «niis ard Diptera. We value very highly xis photographs 
taken for us several years ud by Professor A. E. Verrill; and Mr. Ca rl 
Meinerth of Newburyport, Mass., has taken some exceedingly good pic- 
tures of Hymenoptera and Moths. The venation of insects is exceed- 
ingly difficult to praan by the pencil, even of a facile and skilled 
entomologist. — EDITORS. ] 
TRANSFORMATIONS OF PARTS OF FLOWERS. — Professor Koch has found 
that in a fruit of Solanum melongena, the five anthers have been trans- 
formed into five smaller capsules. A capsule of poppy offers , in the cen- 
tre of its cavity, a small elevation € continuation of the <i, bearing 
a number of smaller capsules. — Nature 
