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of corals hitherto known only in the Indo-Pacific faunæ, is note- 
worthy, and also the presence of a peculiar new form of Dendro- 
phyllia.” 
In the seventh part, on the geographical distribution of the 
polyps, lists of the species found in the five provinces, between 
and including the Arctic region and Panama, are given. 
Economica, Enromoioey IN Canapa.* —This subject is wisely 
taken in hand by the farmers and fruit raisers of Canada and the 
report on the insects injurious to the apple, grape, and plum, can 
not but be hailed with joy by those desirous of distinguishing 
these pests, of knowing their habits, and how to combat them. 
The information is prepared by those thoroughly acquainted with 
the subject, and the work is well illustrated, though not so well 
printed as desirable, a common failing of public documents on this 
continent. Mr. Saunders’ report on the plum weevil, in the same 
pamphlet, contains an interesting account of the efforts made to 
capture the plum weevil in large numbers, by the offer of prizes. 
One person sent in twenty-two hundred and eighty weevils taken 
by jarring twenty plum trees, ten English cherry and thirty peach 
trees, between the 24th of May and the 19th of June! 
NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
BOTANY. 
DARLINGTONIA CALIFORNICA.— It is now more than sixteen years 
since that distinguished botanist, M. Alphonse De Candolle, pub- 
lished in the Bibliothèque de Genève some remarks on the genus 
Darlingtonia, a translation of which appeared in a horticultural 
journal of Philadelphia. 
M. De Candolle states that the figure of the plant exhibits a 
character not mentioned by me in the description, and which is 
very remarkable if it be real; that is, if it be not an error of the 
* First Annual: Report on the Noxious Insects of the Province of Ontario 
for the 
” Associations of 
the Entomological Society of Canada. T S 
and E. B. Reed. “Toronto, 1871. 8yo, pp 
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