THE JOURNAL 
OF 
THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 
On the Reparative Processes which occur in Vegetable Tissues. 
By SAMuUEr G. SHATTİCK. (Communicated by Prof. MICHAEL 
Foster, F.R.S., F.L.S.) 
(Read March 3, 1881.] 
Ir may be right to state that the following observations were 
made without any knowledge that investigations of a similar kind 
had been in progress at the hands of others. Quite recently 
(September 1880) the work of Dr. Frank, ‘ Die Krankheiten der 
Pflanzen,' has been published ; and this, amongst other subjects, 
contains an article on Repair. And to these observations I will 
refer, as occasion arises, in confirmation of, or as supplementary 
to, what is here recorded.* 
I may pass over the effects which ensue after the amputation 
of parts in the simpler forms of vegetable tissues, as in septate 
Alge, or those organisms (as Ulva) in which the component 
* Sir James Paget has also referred to some of these in his address on 
Elemental Pathology, delivered at the Pathological Section of the British 
Medical Association, 1880. 
LINN. JOURN.—BOTANY, VOL. XIX. B 
