36 f; nstinct and Memory exhibited by the [January, 
, In many. instances apparent exceptions turned: out on reëxami- _ 
nation not to be exceptional; and although our work has been 
only tentative, enough has been found to demand the.attention 
of synantherologists. 
TABLES OF ,ACHENIAL HAIRS, &C,,,OF COMPOSITAE. 
I. Vernoniez: as in Asteroidez. 
11. Eupatorieze : 
Ill. Asteroideze. D uplex miis) pe bifurcate, and often unequal, acute at tips. 
i irs sometimes: few or obsolete’! sometimes asin Inuloidex, No elaters. 
Iv. Inuloidex. Duplex hairs, iiol obtuse and equal; No.elaters. 
v. Helenioidez: as in Asteroidee, Crystalloids in endocarp. 
VI. Anthemidex. Achenes ‘usually glabrous; but having Se cells with 
"spiral filaments, (Glands in Achillea within pericarp ce 
vit. Senecionidexz. Duplex hairs, having divisions equal, with as or filaments, 
ae which e escape when moistened. 
“VILL. Uxiendines probably as in Senecionideve (with multicellular hairs interposed 
in some). 
DO Arctotideze, as in’ Asteroides. 
x. Cynaroidex. . Some as in Asteroideæ (Carlina, Xeranthemum). Some as in 
‘Cichoriacez (Cnicus, &c.). Ar retium, Centaurea, Echinops, &c., have sim- 
le hairs on achene like those of periant 
xi, Mutisieze, as in Asteroide. 
XI. Cichorieæ. Achenes glabrous, with denticulate epidermal cells. Endocarp 
having filaments, — erystalloids, 
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INSTINCT AND MEMORY EXHIBITED BY THE FLY- | 
ING SQUIRREL IN CONFINEMENT, WITH oi 
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A THOUGHT ON THE ORIGIN OF | 
“WINGS IN RARS, 2 
BY F. H. KING, 
I’ June, Bye, I obtained a litter of three flying arate Scitt- : 
ropterus volucella (Pall.) Geoff., from a nest built of small twigs 
and oak leaves, lined with grass, which was situated about ten 
feet from the ground ina small red oak standing in a grove of © 
the same kind. The nest was a complete ball, from which the — 
inmates escaped without any specially provided opening. No 
large trees of any kind exist within two miles of the grove, the 
locality, in its topography and vegetation, being an extension of — 
the Minnesota prairies into Wisconsin. | 
The squirrels, so small when taken as to escape very readily 
between the wires of an ordinary canary-bird cage, became 
very tame and playful at once, they grew rapidly upon cow's 
