
494 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
THE GENERATIONS OF Worms.*— Our readers are already familiar with 
the strange alternations of generation observed in many of the lower in- 
testinal worms. Like successions of forms ct eig id from the 
the present Journal Dr. Malmgren, known oor his V bolo works on the 
Labrador), to certain species of the genus Nereis, which live in the mud 
or swim at the bottom. The actual connection bas not been yet traced, 
but the author is strongly of the opinion that it will be found that the 
Nereids are the parents of the poteras and also of the species of 
— another genus allied to the former 
AND THE SOUTH.T— — Travellers and reris in Florida will 
ea no 
orida. e traveller should also take with him the articles on the 
shell-mounds of Florida, by Prof. Wyman, published in our second vol- 
ume, and those of Mr. Stearns, which are now appearing in the NAT- 
URALIST. 
ANNALS OF BEE CuLTUnE.j]— We should judge that this annual was à 
very timely production. The articles, mostly written by the Editor, are 
ence of bee-keeping. The Editor proposes to issue another annual early 
n 1870. 

NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 

BOTANY. 
NDENCY OF FLorat OrGANS TO EXCHANGE Orrices. I have before 
. mea curious instance of the tendency which Horat organs have to ex- 
change offices. It is a staminate spike of corn well developed, and of 
normal growth for some five inches from it insertion on the stem, but 
bearing on its apex a well defined little ear of grain, as regular in struc- 
ture as those which were born in their Scis place. Ido not know 
how common this may be, but I never before chanced to see it. — C. J. 8. 
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: BULL M ME rh MM id ul Eu igne with a map 
Se dun Sion. By D. G. Brenton, M. D. Philadelphia, 1869. 12mo, pp. 136, Pen". 
iAnnals of Bee Culture for 1869, By D. L. Adair, Editor. Louisville, Ky. 8vo, DP. 57. 


