914 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
trorse and adnate, usually TANNIN rather an strictly terminal, and its 
wo cells srt to open lengthwise. The ten proper stamens are just 
as in the normal flower, except that they are pate or at length recurved, 
and the aimes wholly free, there being no pouches to receive them. 
The pistil is wholly normal, and there is nothing € to prevent the 
ovules from being fertilized and maturing seed. — RAY 
OCCURRENCE OF Rare PLANTS IN ILLINOIS. — There are in * inc 
Manual" some species noted as rare which grow in the eor of Peoria: 
Sin nivea DC., Napea dioica L., Pets incarnata L., Cacalia suave- 
8 cle i A. Gr 
palustris L., in great abundance; and in St. Clair county, Eleocharis quad- 
rangulata R. Br. 
There are a number of species which could, from the habitats given in 
*Gray's Manual,” be taken as not growing in Illinois, though they do; 
are Arenaria lateriflora L., Flerkea proserpinacoides Willd., Agri- 
Ylora Ait. ea Hoffm 
L. (only one f , Tro h. 
à idi je aphylos uva-ursi Spr., Lysimachia ihyrsiflor Utri- 
cularia intermedia Hayne, Phlox reptans Michx.(?), Fraxinus eese 
am., Aristolochia serpentaria L., Dirca palustris L., Carya tomentosa 
illoides chi ili 
i s spectabilis L., Trillium nivale Ridd., 
glochin maritimum L., Potamogeton n Lig: dl tricoccum 
Ait., Carex arida dah Torr, e Ji iformis L., C. lanuginosa Michx., 
longirostris Torr., Schleich., Asplenium at adn 
ichx., occur around Peori 
een Arabis lyrata d on the limestone rocks near Galena, and 
Mofes verna Nutt., in Fulton county. In Southern Illinois I have d 
lected Vitis indivisa Willd., V. bipinnata T. Gr., Heuchera villosa Mich 
pte radiata spe Celtis ETE (near Cairo) Quercus pellos 
-, Cyperus virens Michx., um Walterianum Schult., P. leve Michx., 
dst us anena Auk c in Falling Spring, posait St. Louis). — 
RENDEL. 
ZOOLOGY. 
EARLY ARRIVAL OF GEESE. — A flock of forty geese (Anser Canadensis) 
were observed passing over Glace Bay, Cape Breton, steering north on 
the 23d of February. This is at least a fortnight earlier than I have ever 
known them to appear in Nova Scotia. — J. MarrHEW Jones, Halifax, 
MS. 
YBRID Fo — In answer to a query in the NaTURALIST for March, 
as to the ky vridation of Pintados, I might state that an instance of the 
eg alluded to came under my notice in the year 1845, where the cross 
as the more singular one of a male turkey and a female Guinea hen. 
