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;tnd all the changes undergone by the stamens and style were clearly 



shown. The stamens are of very unequal 



lengths,the three superior ones(l, 2, 1, Fig.)be- 



ing the shortest and united by their filaments. 



y^^^^^^vX^ The two inferior (4, 4, Fig.) are longest and 



itt (H\'f\ * ^ \^ the remaining ones (3, 3, Fig.) intermediate 



If A * (zQs> ijl in length. Two of the missing stamens are 



I \\ i / .// ' il represented by sterile filaments but there is 



no trace of the inferior one ( ?, Fig.). While 

 the anthers are bursting the five stigmatic 

 surfaces are closely pressed together. So per- 

 fect is the protandry that the anthers shrivel 

 and drop off and the filaments wither and 

 Diagram of flower of Peiargo- curl up before the stigmas are exposed In 



nium graveolens. Stamens mini- . . r 



bered in the order of their length rare instances one or two shriveled anthers 

 4 being longest. persist until the style begins to open— C.R.B- 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Prof. C. E. Bessey, with his family, is spending the winter in the 

 east. Another botanical text-book will doubtless be the product of his 

 freedom from class-work. 



Illinois Industrial University has quite a well organized Na- 

 tural History Society. The programme for 1883, just received, shows 

 one meeting, that of April 7, devoted to a botanical topic, viz: "Notes on 

 Mosses," by Mr. A. B Seymour. 



E. Ray Lankester upholds in a vigorous article in Nature the view 

 formerly fully presented by him in a memoir in the Quart. Jour. Micros. 

 Hai. that the Chlorophyll corpuscles of Hydra are truly Chlorophyll cor- 

 puscles and not Unicellular Alga'. 



Mr. A. IT. Curtiss is now at work preparing his sixth fascicle of 

 Florida plants, to be issued in February, which he expects to be more val- 

 uable than any of the preceding ones, and will contain very nearly all 

 the South Florida plants which he has not previously distributed. 



Henry John Elwes has published in London a most elaborate 

 monograph of the genus Liliuiii. bearing the date of 1880. It is an Ele- 

 phant folio and is' one of those sumptuous volumes which are more apt to 

 be published across the sea than here. Every species known to the au- 

 thor is figured, in natural size and colors, making 48 full-page plates. 



We were guilty of a little injustice in the December Gazette 

 in speaking of Mr. Frank Bush's "Flora of Jackson Co., Mo.," when we 

 wrote that the name of the state only appeared in the imprint. As 



