PORA aces Generai Notes. [J uly, 
Botanica, News. — Professor Seymour’s lecture before the 
Minnesota Horticultural Society, in January last, is a model of 
what such a lecture should be. It deals plainly with a few com- 
mon but imperfectly understood fungi of the fruit-garden, viz., 
the rusts of the raspberry and blackberry (Ca@oma nitens and 
Phragmidium rubi-id@i); the “double blossom” of the black- 
the flora of Missouri. It includes phanerogams and pterido- 
phytes only, and yet there are enumerated 1749 species. A study 
of the list shows the State to contain four well-defined botanical 
regions: (1) The Mississippi and Missouri 7zver-bottoms ; (2) the 
swamp region of the.south-east; (3) the Ozark region, sout of 
the Missouri river; (4) the prairie region of the northern and 
western portions of the State——The Botanical Club of the 
meetings in August at Buffalo, and will meet with a warm recep- 
tion from the botanists and citizens of Buffalo. Although the 
arrangements are not yet completed, it can quite confidently be 
announced that the club will be tendered a half-day excursion to 
Subsequent meetings will be announced on the daily propra H 
of the association. Itis hoped that the botanists will be ve 
- still larger numbers this year than they were last, OF 
ear before. Let every teacher of botany arrange now G 
~ present at the meetings. The secretary of the club is J. 
Arthur, of Geneva, N. Y. A 
ae : | ENTOMOLOGY. it 
-DESCRIPTION OF THE Form OF THE FEMALE IN A Lat 
-(ZaRHIPIS RIVERSI HORN.) £ abet oF” 
_ Q. Apterous, vermiform, nted, retractile, phosphorescent. - aeons : 
; joints, exclusive of the head, twelve, Legs six, two on each of the three 
_ Segments, or on those portions underneath representing the pro, ® i 
sternum. Length, when extended in walking, two and a quarter inches; 
Width widest part five-sixteenths of an inch, — 
