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seems that all isolated tendrils, entirely free or fixed only by one of their extremitie" 

 coil in one uniform direction through their whole length: that all those whose ends 

 are fastened produce at least two helices ot opposite kinds ; that tendrils free at both 

 ends coil most often from left to right, just as those which have not been separated 

 from the plant ; that isolated tendrils which are fastened at the summit, areas apt to 

 coil in one direction as the other. The helices formed by the hawu] tendril ought 

 always to be an even number. — [Ed.] 



Recent PcBLiCATioxs. — A/nericini Jounidl <>/ Srieurr mul Artu, March. Dr. Gray 

 has a short note on Bcvfrorsc <in<l Sinistrorse, or which is right and which is left, as 

 applied to twining, overlapping in tlower buds, and course of the spiral in phyllotaxis v 

 Two opposite views are held, the one of which supposes the observer within the coil, 

 the other outside. The former view was adopted by LinnjBus, Mold, Palm, A. Braun, 

 Alph. DeCandolle, and others, the latter by Bentham, Darwin, and Dr. dray, and it 

 seems to us to be the much more reasonable and natural view. The BafiDucal Nccrolo- 

 r/y of 1870 contains the names of Adolphe Theodore Bronguiart, John Joseph Bennett, 

 Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Leopold Fueckel, Edward Newman, Joseph Carson, M. 

 D., and Wilhelm Hofmeister. 



Aniericiui Wafunii/sf, iMarch. — In an article entitled, "Hints on the Origin of the 

 Flora and Fauna of the Florida Keys," L. F. DePourtales comes to the conclusion that 

 the vegetation of the Florida Keys is largely West Indian. A list of Licdiens found 

 o-rowing within twenty miles of Yale College is contributed by F. W.Hall. Some 

 large trunks of Kulm/'a iKtifolui are put on record as occurriug on the extreme western 

 border of South Carolina. "One trunk, at a foot or so from the ground, measured four 

 feet one and a quarter inches in circumference, and, rising without division, maintains 

 a size approaching this and gradually lessening, for six oi' seven feet. C. S. Sargent 

 has a note on the "Dichogamy of Agave" confirming by observation Dr. Engel- 

 inann's statement, in his monograph on Agave, that the fiowei-s of the genius are "ves- 

 {)ertine or nocturnal, ixn^ protenDuh'i'oiiii ."' 



BiiUctiii "f Ike Torrci/ Bctaniri'l OUth, February. — J. B. Ellis describes eleven new 

 species of Fungi, one Stcrcuin, one PinfilldriK, one Jli/xfcz-lm//, one IJci'iniited, three 

 PczizfOf, and four Sp/nfrias. Charles H. Peck describes a new fungus found at West- 

 chester, Pa. Geo. E. Davenport notices some variations in Lomarin and Polj^porltiUK. 



The (Tanlnirr'x Monthly, March. — Mr. Meehan has an interesting note on the "In- 

 terpretation of Varying Forms" which also appears in the Proceedings of the Philadel- 

 phia Academy of Natural Sciences. We make the following extract.- He said tliat "on 

 a recent visit to the Academy, the distinguished botanist, Dr. p]ngelmann, had i)ointed 

 out that some oaks had lobed leaves even in early infancy, while others had entire 

 leaves: but that those which had earljMobed leaves assumed more entire leaves when 

 mature, and those which had entire leaves when yoimg, had lolx'd leaves when fully 

 grown." 



Field mill Fiiri'nt., March. — Mr. J. W. Chickering gives a short list of some local 

 plant catalogues. 



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