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: GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY. o 
ASSOCIATION OF AN INCONSPICUOUS COROLLA WITH PROTEROGYN- 
ous DICHOGAMY IN INSECT-FERTILIZED FLOWERS.— Mr. Wilson, 
at the last meeting of the British association, read a paper o on this sub- 
ject. He said that there is a class of flowers represented by thecom- 
mon figwort (Schrophularia nodosa) which are shown, by their se- _ 
creting nectar and emitting odors, to be dependant on the visits 
of insects for their fertilization, and not on the wind, and yet do 
not possess a conspicuous colored or marked corolla for the guid- 
ance of insects to the flowers. Moreover, the flowers are in them 
not massed together to g sinhighy 
colored flowers, like heaths, ae gladiolus, a Highly 
colored conspicuous flowers are usually proteranhous, 2 e 
the anthers are matured before the Sod and as flowers are us- o 
ually developed from below upwards, it follows that in any given _ 
plant the lower flowers will have shed their poleg and have their 
