534 General Notes. [May, 
States, a field now occupied by Dr. Gray’s and Professor Wood's 
manuals. It is to be hoped that Dr. Kellerman’s second book 
will be a less verbatim compilation than his first has been, 
BoranicaL Notres.—We have examined Professor Groff’s Plant 
Analysis, published by the Science and Health Publishing Com- 
pany of Lewisburg, Pa., and can commend it to those who wish 
a cheap and yet good help of this kind, Dr. Farlow, in the 
March Botanical Gazette, makes a number of interesting additions 
to his previous list of Peronosporee. In a recent number of 
Nature, Dr. Schweinfurth contributes an interesting paper on the 
flora of ancient Egypt. As is well known, the funeral wreaths 
preserved in the mummy cases have been objects of study by 
botanists for some time, and through these we now know muc 
as to the common plants of the Nile region thirty to thirty-five 
centuries ago. The evidence as obtained shows that some impor” 
tant migrations have taken place during the time which has elapsed 
since the wreaths were gathered. On the other hand, there !$ 
rietal characters as well. The last part (No. 7, 
He says in conclusion, after having examined many 
widely different genera, “It seems clear that, if not unio 
toplasmic continuity is very widely distributed in the : 
and further on, in explanation of this phenomenon, z mpletely 
of cell-division appears never to proceed so far as to c 
that they remain connected together by one or 
protoplasmic material.” 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
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Gitts oF Insecr Larv&.—In an article on th 
that 
Psyche (1v, 110, 1883), Professor G. Macloskie g ntaining 
systems of fine tracheal loops, somewhat a 
plurality of carbon-wicks in an Edison lamp. , 
however, of the rectal branchiæ of the larval 
rolled under the cover-glass, he found that t 
cheal ramifications ended ccecally ; all were 9 
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separate the different portions of a divided pr rene fen of 
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