CONTENTS. 



PART I.— 1846. 



I. On the Development of the Ovulum in Avicennia. By the late William 



Griffith, Esq., F.L.S. Sgc. Communicated by R. H. Solly, Esq., 

 F.R.S., F.L.S. 8^c page 1 



II. Some Observations upon the Structure of two new Species of Hectocotyle, 



parasitic upon Tremoctopus violaceus, D. Ch., and Argonauta Argo, 

 Linn. ; with an Exposition of the Hypothesis that these Hectocotylae are 

 the Males of the Cephalopoda upon which they are found. By A. Kol- 

 liker, Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy in the Uni- 

 versity of Zurich. Communicated by Robert Brown, Esq., V.P.L.S. 

 Sgc 9 



III. Descriptions of some unpublished Species of Plants from North-PVestern 



India. By M. Pakenham Edgeworth, Esq., F.L.S., Bengal Civil Ser- 

 vice 23 



IV. On the Indian Species of Balanophora, and on a new Genus of the Family 



Balanophoreae. By the lateWiLhiAM Griffith, Esq., F.L.S. S^c. . 93 



V. On Agaricus crinitus, Linn., and some allied Species. By the Rev, M. J. 



Berkeley, M.J., F.L.S. 8fc 109 



VI. Caricis Species novce, vel minus cognitce. Auctore Francisco Boott, M.D., 



S.L.S. 8sc 115 



VII. Remarks on the Examination of some Fossil JVoods, which tend to eluci- 



date the Structure of certain Tissues in the recent Plant. By Edwin 

 John Quekett, Esq., F.L.S. 5fc 149 



VIII. Descriptions of ChB\c\6\{Q&. By Francis Walker, Esq., F.L.S. ^c. 153 



