1830. ] Botany. 731 
Description of a a secs of ok ae ( tigplagh 300 verrucosus), from the coast 
of California. By W. N. Lockin 8vo, pp. 9, 1880. From the author. 
Observations on Mo unt ia y S. P. Langley. (From the Amer. Jour. Sci. 
and Arts, Vol. x1x, July 1880.) aie, pp. 12, 1880. From the author. 
Introduction n the Study of ener oie amiong the North napere In- 
dians By Dr. H. C. Yarrow o, pp. 6 ee From tbe aut 
Eesitribartions to the ches of Missouri y the pctiaelacwal igi A 
38 St. Louis Academy of Science. Pt. 1.—Pot ae 4to, pp. 30, maps 5, p 
1880, 
Memoirs of the Geological T | India. Series x. eure Tertiary and 
— ‘Pertiary Vertebrata. Vol. 1, pt. 1v.—Supplement to Crania of Ruminants, pp. 
2-181, pl. 21-24. Pt. oa-Shvall: hae Marbada Probostidia, pp- 182-300, pls. ' 
rei 45. "By R. Lydekker. From the author. 
The Valley Naturalist. Vol. ii, No. 1, 8vo. St. mes 1880. From the editor. 
The Student. Vol. 1, No. 1, 8vo, 1880. From the 
D SE Ta Breiträge zur Naturgeschichie de Wonk: 4to, pp. 88, pl. 11. 
Cassel, 1880. From the edito 
Beitrage zur Kenntniss der F Praatje Südamerika’s. Von Dr. Franz Steindach- 
ner. 4to, pp, 23, pl. 4, 1880. From the author. 
Ueber den p ee Ban der pge Wüste. Von. Dr. Carl A. Zittel. 4to, 
PP- 47, map 1, 1880. From the author 
:0: 
GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY. 
THE FERTILIZATION OF AQUILEGIA VULGARIS. —A note by Mr. 
Thomas Meehan, in the “ Bulletin of the Torrey Club” or "Jone, 
1880, recording the perforation of the curved spurs of certain 
species of culumbine, induces the aiton of the following 
ead based chiefly on the observations of Sprengel’ and Dr. H. 
ll 
As the plant commonly grows, the flowers are pendant. The 
five sepals are petaloid, nany flat, and aid in rendering the flow- 
removal of nectar D bees with short tongues, an curvature 
seems to be a pretty good “ys of excluding birds, ea as Prof. 
dd has if i a nd oa during the eg spring. 
1 Entdeckte Geheimniss 1793. S. 279. 
* Befruchtung der Blumen, 1873. S. 118. 
AM yr Sept, 1880, p. 668. 
