138 - Notes on some apparently undescribed (February, 
town by the introduction of a Chinese narcissus, whose pretty 
blossoms are brightening many a front window, and perfuming 
many a room with their delicate fragrance. Charlie’s cultivation 
of the plant is much like our winter culture of the hyacinth, only 
he thinks it necessary to surround the bulbs with many stones 
and pebbles, and to bind together the leaves with a strip of red 
paper, which gives them quite a military aspect. Several of the 
outer onion-like layers of these bulbs were put to soak, and the | 
result awaited. My pleasure in this result was to be slightly 
dashed with bitter. The infusion swarmed with what a fet? | 
called “heathen dragons,” but the dipping-tube occasionally | 
brought up a fragment bearing a sedentary collar-monad, a Me . 
nosiga, which, under other circumstances I would have been ghd 
to see. Members of the Choano-F lagellata have become favorites 
of mine, and I have learned to associate them with especial purity i 
in their surroundings; so to take them from this brownish, mi- 
cilaginous and malodorous liquid, was it not the fall that is said? 
always follow undue pride? This alone, however, would sca? ie 
have upset my equilibrium, There is a little more. The e% 
ture was one that had seemed particularly graceful, and I a 
described it as new in the American Monthly Microscopical “ish 
nal for Nov., 1883, naming it Monosiga Woodia, after a ™ 
How did it get into this undesirable predicament ? Had its Had 
cent germ been clinging to the bulb from China land? * 
been swinging in the air of Trenton, or had it been floating e 
water of the Delaware? Who can tell ? ae 
With it Gontomonas truncata Fres., whose habitat is a 
“fresh water,” was present in profusion, its numbers ici dy 
rapidly by longitudinal fission, and a Tillina, differing $0 mark 
from the form in the rat-tail maceration that it must be rè ag: 
aS a new comer among known infusoria. 
The latter Holotrichous creature, represented in Fig. 3 
peculiar in form that I hardly 
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shaped, although its rese eper 
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Fic. 5.—Tillina inflata, n. sp;, ever possessed that pO ane 
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its curious mitten-like contour, and which makes inflata a> 
