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no other botanist but myself has ever collected, although Drs. 
Hooker and Gray were over the same ground in 1877, and the 
plant is common along several of Dr. Parry’s routes in New 
Mexico. The shrub at a distance, yes, even at the distance of a 
man’s eyes from the ground at his feet, looks so much like 
Gutierrezia euthamie (which grows with it) that it must have been 
confounded with that plant by the numerous botanists who have 
crossed the vast tract of country which it inhabits.’—/saac C. 
Martindale. 
INSECTS CAUGHT BY THE PuystANtHus.—I am reminded, on 
reading the account of the manner in which insects are caught in 
the anther-wings of Phystanthus albens, published in the last num- 
ber of the AMERICAN NATURALIST, that I exhibited to the Boston 
Society of Natural History, Sept. 1, 1852, a specimen of that 
plant, and read a description of the manner in which insects 
became imprisoned in its anthers. The following passage is pub- 
lished in the report of my remarks: “The insects catch them- 
selves, and so often does this occur that a gentleman in New 
York has obtained butterflies, bees and a great variety of other 
insects, enough to fill a large case, from the flowers of a plant 
growing in his garden.’—Chas. F. Sprague. 
We would also add that Prof. C. V. Riley, as he tells us, several 
years ago recorded in the Proceedings of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, the fact that he had found 
moths entrapped by the same plant—FLdizors. 
BotanicaL Notes.—The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 
for November (received December 28th) contains farther notes on 
ballast plants near New York City, by Mr. A. Brown; and Prof. 
Eaton contributes the 7th of his articles on new and little-known 
ferns of the United States. The Journal of Botany, hitherto con- 
ducted by Mr. Henry Trimen will be edited by Mr. Brittain, 
during the absence of the former in Ceylon, as Director of the Bo- 
tanical Gardens. This journal records the death of the following 
botanists: J. F. Von Brandt, a joint author with the late Dr. 
Ratzeburg, of the Medical Botany and Zodlogy ; Carlo Bagnis, 
aged 24, and Professor of Botany in the new University of Rome; 
C. J. M. Von Klinggraff, author of a Flora of Prussia, and a me- 
moir on the plant geography of Northern and Arctic Europe. _ 
— Grevillea for December, notices Californian Spherie, and — 
prints an article on the propagation of Spheria fimbriata, by C. — 
B. Plowright. The new part of Bentham and Hooker's Gen- © 
era of Plants, will be issued in January, and will complete the 
Dicotyledonz. The last part only remains to be published—— 
Sir. J. D. Hooker has called attention to the-discovery of a variety | _ 
of the cedar of Lebanon on the mountains of Cyprus. 
