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10: 
GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY. 
INSECTS NEEDED TO FERTILIZE UTRICULARIA AND PyXIDAN- 
THERA.—In a short paper read at the~American Association, in 
Buffalo, in 1876, I showed some of the neat arrangements by 
which across-fertilization of flowers was secured in several species 
of several genera of plants. I now present an illustration of one 
of the best of these. It is the common bladderwort, Ufricu/aria 
vulgaris, which is common in stagnant ponds. Aside from the 
a 
Arai under MSEE S there are several other things 
