NOTE OF CYLINDR0CAP8A INVOLUTA. 



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appear to be without the loose outer envelopes. The author does 

 not state that the contents are not a bright, but a dull lurid green, 

 very opaque. On endeavouring to preserve this plant, it " kept" 

 not at all, colour became lost, envelope shrivelled, and even after a 

 couple of days the examples did not represent the same thing as 

 when fresh. 



Thus the morphology of the plant points to an affinity with 

 Hormospora, Breb., which, too, has its forms with the elliptic cells 

 placed longitudinally {H. nmtabilis and others) and transversely 

 \H. transversalis), but no Honnospora, except H. ramosa, Thwaites, 

 appears attached ; the contents, too, are bright green, and seem to 

 show a characteristic internal arrangement not seen in Cylindro- 

 capsa; the outer investment is also more mucous. As a form or a 

 form-species (for, doubtless, such as those belonging to Cylindro- 

 capsa and Hormospoi-a can all be accounted no more, so long as no 

 reproductive process is known) the present plant iCylindrocapsa 

 involuta) i?,, per se, abundantly distinct. It appears to be very rare, 

 so does C. nuda, which I only once met with ; neither is recorded 

 by Rabenhorst in " Flor. Europ." 



But whether these Cylindrocapsa-fornis be mere stages of other 

 growths — mere form-species — or permanent parthenogenetic 

 species — at least, just as well as DictyosphcBrium, Palmodactylon, 

 Cosmocladium, Mischococcus, Nephrocytiuin, etc., etc., which keep 

 recurring again and again — some very frequently, others very 

 rarely — but all examples of each form always alike — they are 

 entitled to hold a place for purposes of reference until happily 

 more be, if ever, known as to their development and their right to 

 rank as independent plants. 



HOLLYHOCK DISEASE. 



A writer in the " Gardener's Chronicle " has proposed a remedy 

 for the Hollyhock disease, which, he hopes, will prove effectual. 

 He says " this terrible disease has now for twelve months 

 threatened the complete annihilation of the glorious family of 

 Hollyhock,- and to baffle all the antidotes that the ingenuity 

 of man could suggest, so rapidly does it spread and accomplish 

 its deadly work. Of this I have had very sad evidence, as last 

 year at this time I had charge of, if not the largest, one of the 

 largest and finest collections of Hollyhocks any where in cultiva- 

 tion, which had been under my special care for eleven years, and 

 lip to within a month of my resigning that position, I had ob- 

 served nothing uncommon amongst them, but before taking my 

 final leave of them I had to witness the melancholy spectacle of 

 bed after bed being smitten down, and amongst them many 

 splendid seedlings, which had cost me years of patience and 

 anxiety to produce. And again, upon taking a share and the 

 management of this business, another infected collection fell to 



