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with momentum more than sufficient to cause the discharge of ‘he pollen 
upon himself. In the other view, the influence, whatever it may be, must 
be conveyed along the filament to the anther; and, how it produces its- 
effect there is equally mysterious. Mr. Müller did not ascertain by what 
the anther 
case of Mr. Miiller’s plants, and that it was by the merest accident that he 
did not discover it. 
These remarks, it is hoped, will serve to direct attention to the plant in 
future. It is quite likely it may exist in other gardens in this country, 
and, if not, there can hardly fail to be,specimens of it in European con- 
servatories.— CHARLES WRIGHT. i 
NT, so called, is a singular bulb cultivated for the 
disoei habit of its long sheathing leaves tapering to a narrow point. It 
is the Ornithogalum alliaceum of t e gardens, and employed to rate 
pedestals in artistical collections of plants; the bulb is of a lively gre% 
color and grows upon the surface of the earth, sustained in an 
onl A 
is the S 
years careful cultivation, suddenly threw up a tall green stem supp? 
humerous small white flowers, the petals of which are completely Te 
ere or bent iaka ia; the flowers in little clusters. It was Dr 
to Salem from some part of eto and has been cultivated by F: Pah 
in ia conservatory on Crombie street. 
Some large fine looking bulbs i PNA Illyricum? have aer 
ally distributed by sale, at an extraordinarily low price per bulb. na 
a native of the South of France and Spain; the flowers are white, 
some, and very fragrant.—J. L. R., Salem. ing 
THE SMALLEST FLOWERING-PLANT KNOWN.— Two weeks ago, Te ps 
from the Catskill Mountain House, I saw by the eye! a mile hastilf 
_ of Catskill Village, a pool completely covered with WoL red the 
seized a newspaper (the only means of conveyance at ha cove 
sides with the minute grains, and keeping the paper wet, angele bloom, 
it in my aquarium. This day (August ot os find it os in 
the little white points dotting my aquari This i flower 
being the first found in flower in this earen oat this, pes smallest 
ing-plant known. L ana minot, 
. S.— At the same se are in rep in my aquarium, ge 
L. perpusilla, and L. minor var. purpurea, whose flowers differ 8° 
from L. minor, that Mr. Leggett, who wise me these, will propose it 9 
distinct species, oT. F. ALLEN, M. D., New York. 
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