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inclines to emphasize the doubts with which Dr. Fries has received the 
supposed new criteria of distinction. It remains none the less likely, 
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sometimes afford clews to affinity where there is little to direct; and thus 
deserve a place beside the better-known solution of iodine, on our work- 
ing tables. —E. TucKERMAN, Amherst. 
THE SUN-DEW A FLY-TRAP.— I wish to call the attention of botanists 
to avery humble little plant, the Drosera arora pnt or common sun- 
dew, which not only catches flies, but eats them. I was looking early in 
the spring in a swamp for chrysalids, when I noticed the tiny leaves of 
the sun-dew, which has beautiful blood-red glandular hairs, each tipped 
two plants and kept them for several weeks by laying the bit of moss on 
which they grew in a plate supplied every day with water. During this 
time I fed them with midges, ants, and beefsteak. The tiny drop of dew 
is glutinous, and any small insect touching them is lost. Every effort to 
escape but hurries its doom, and in a moment wings and legs are held fast 
to the tiny bristles 
ow begins ey carious part of the affair. All the hairs begin to 
a leaf. In twelve hours nearly every hair touched it. They gathered 
Over it in knots and remained so for a day and a half, when they slowly 
returned to their natural position, leaving the beef a white sodden ato 
resting on the points of the hairs. I tried it with a bit of paper, but it 
refused to move for that; then a tiny fly was touched to one of the treach- 
erous dew-drops, smothered, and in a few hours all the ferocious little 
Scarlet hairs had their beaded points upon his body. When the blossom 
bud appeared, the glands no longer secreted the dew, and the leaves lost 
their brilliant color. — L. A. MILLINGTON. 
Two Crops or Roses. — Another correspondent has mentioned a mon- 
Strosity in roses. I have a Provence rose which for three years in suc- 
cession has borne numbers of flowers after its usual time of blooming. 
The late roses ead grow directly out of the old one until the third is 
produced. Some of them are perfect with the exception of the calyx, 
which is sdhaveiciea while others are a confused cluster of pink leaves, 
at the end of a stout stem. — L. A. M. 
A Waite WILD COLUMBINE. — One of your correspondents has spoken 
of finding Columbines that were nearly white. I believe they are not 
uncommon, as I have frequently found not only Columbines but Lobelia 
cardinalis of a delicate white or cream color. — L. A 

