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and many contain several different colored substances which can 
be separated or perfectly weil distinguished. Fully twenty have 
such well-marked optical characters that they could be recognized 
without difficulty in other plants; but of these only one is known 
‘to occur in lant not a fungus. This is the fine orange 
color, soluble in bi-sulphide of carbon, found in Calocera viscosa, 
which agrees perfectly with the more orange-colored xanthophyll 
of some faded leaves, and of the exterior layer of the root of the 
carrot. Closely allied species sometimes contain two different 
kinds of coloring matter in common, but very often one or more 
differ; while at the same time species belonging to somewhat 
widely separated genera are occasionally colored by identical 
substances. Notwithstanding this, on the whole, there appears to 
be a very decided connection between the general organization of 
, the plant and the particular kind of coloring-matter developed 
in it.— A. W. B. 
New Sratrons or Rare Praxnrts.—Saxifraga aizoides. Warsaw 
Glen, Wyoming Co., N. Y. Very abundant high up on shaded, wet 
rocks. (Genesee Shales.) Also on the west bank of the Gene- 
see River at Portage, Wyoming Co., N. Y. between the middle and 
lower falls where it occurs, for nearly a mile, on the high cliffs. 
Found also on the Gardeau Bluffs (425 ft. high) still further 
down the river. 
Lythrum Salicaria. Marshes at the head of Cayuga Lake. 
Primula Mistassinea. South bank of Fall Creek, Ithaca, just 
below the Triphammer Fall, — abundant. 
Pinguicula vulgaris. — With the preceding, 
places on Cascadilla Creek, Ithaca. 
Sisymbrium canescens. Enfield Glen, Tompkins Co. ; 
Glen, Schuyler Co., N. Y. 
Phlox subulata. Everywhere about Ithaca. 
deau Bluffs, Wyoming Co., N. Y. | six Mile 
Sedum ternatum. A few specimens in the glen of >! jn 
Creek, Ithaca — obviously indigenous.—D. S. JORDAN, Instruct 
in Botany, Cornell University. 
and also in several 
Watkins 
Also on the Gar- 
ZOOLOGY. 
A Rare Anrmat.—On Saturday, February 17, 1872, 
brought to me an animal I had never seen before, & 
thought was new to this region. In general appear? 
