Band 134. Nr. 23. XXXVIII. Jahrgang. I. Bd. Nr. 23. 



Botanisches Centralblatt. 



Referierendes Organ 



der 



Association Internationale des Botanistes 

 für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik. 



Herausgegeben unter der Leitung 

 des Präsidenten: des Vice- Präsidenten : des Secretärs: 



Dr. D. H. Scott. Prof. Dr. Wm. Trelease. Dr. J. P. Lotsy. 



und der Redactions-Commissions- Mitglieder : 



Prof. Dr. Wm. Trelease, Dr. C. Bonaventura, A. D. Cotton, 



Prof. Dr. C. Wehmer und Dr. C. H. Ostenfeld. 



von zahlreichen Specialredacteuren in den verschiedenen Ländern. 



Dr. J. P. Lotsy, Chefredacteur. 



No.23. 



Abonnement für das halbe Jahr 15 Mark 

 durch alle Buchhandlungen und Postanstalten. 



1917. 



Alle für die Redaction bestimmten Sendungen sind zu richten an: 

 Radaction des Botanischen Centralblattes, Haarlem (Holland), Spaarneiy. 



Takeda, H., Some Points in the Morphology of theStipu- 



les in the Stellatae , with special reference to Galium. 



(Additional Note). (Ann. Bot. XXX. p. 601—603. 7 textfig. 



1916). 



This communication is an addendum to the author's paper 



which appeared under the same title in Ann. Bot. XXX. p. 197. 



After returning to Japan he had an opportunity of examining spe- 



cimens of Stellatae preserved in the Herbarium of the College of 



Science, Tokyo Imperial University, and in his own herbarium. He 



has füund, in addition to the cases of double stipules recorded in 



his previous paper, that double stipules also occur in Galium kamt- 



schaticiim, Stell., « hirsutum, Takeda, and ß oreganum, Piper, 



Riibia grandis, Kom., and Asperitla odorata, L. 



Agnes Arber (Cambridge). 



"Worsdell, W. C, The Morphology of the monocotyle- 

 donous Embryo and ofthat ofthe Grass in particular. 

 (Ann. Bot. XXX. p. 509—524. 10 textfigs. 1916.) 



The author opens his paper by recording the occurrence of 

 abnormal seedlings of Zea mais with a forked coleoptile, first ob- 

 served by Dr. E. J. Salisbury. In order to interpret this abnor- 

 mality, he enters on a general discussion of the morphology of the 

 grass embryo, bringing forward no new facts, but dealing with 

 the subject from a comparative Standpoint. Eight of the ten text- 

 figures are derived from other authors' works. The conclusions 

 which he reaches are as follows: 



The scutellum is the lamina of the cotyledon, corresponding 



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