494 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
e sets no fruit either in the old world or the new; also that, on 
ry, no one seems to know it away from cultivation. This year, 
ape Some pods are forming in France. Has any one seen pods 
nd seeds in this country? Th quiry is in this case particularly 
addressed to Southern correspondents. Th re in cultivation 
forms singularly intermediate between hispida and the seuda- 
cacia, or common Locust, but these are more likely hybrids. The 
Rose Acacia is said to be indigenous to Georgia, apparently with good 
ason. But definite indications of it, and fruiting specimens are de- 
sirable 
As the above-mentioned number of the Revue Horticole gives a 
figure and description of that charming hot-house climber, Cleroden- 
dron Thompsone, I may take this occasion to refer to the curious, and 
perhaps as yet unnoticed, arrangement of its stamens and pistils, so 
as to favor, if not to secure, PSSA R The long and slender 
— and style in the flower-bud rolled up in an incurved coil, 
r the manner of the genus. Schenk i crimson corolla opens, set- 
a these organs free, the filaments straighten at once into nearly & 
horizontal position, and their anthers opening are covered with fresh 
pollen; while the slender style is strongly recurved, carrying the 
forked stigma downwards and backward far under the flowers. After 
under the tube of the corolla, while the style has risen to the hori- 
zontal or slightly ascending position, so placing the stigma where 
the anthers were the day before. Evidently there is only a short 
period during which a moth, or such insect, visiting the flowers can 
brush any pollen from the anthers to their own stigma; but the sae 
of freshly opened flowers will, in the progress of the insect from 
m to blossom, sey d the stigma of oes e's ex- 
: panded the day before. — A. Gra 
May-apples in Clusters. — In "i new edition of the “Manual of the 
Botany of the Northern States,” it is too briefly mentioned that Podo- 
Phyllum has been found in Ohio, by W.C. Hampton, with two carpels! 
i o emntenes on a visit to the Agricultural College of Penn- 
