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seeds of Cycads," by Professor Thiaelton Dyer. Helnzel had de- 

 scribed this as a cellular structure, the cells of which had thick walls 

 penetrated by ramifying tubes. There was reason, however, for be- 

 lieving that the membrane only represented the wall of a single cell, 

 and was in fact probably the greatly enlarged primary embryo- sac. 

 What Heinzel had taken for cells seemed really to be solid. They 

 were arranged all over the membrane after the fashion of what carpet 

 manufacturers call a ** moss-pattern." They were possibly the debris 

 of the thickened walls of the cells of tlie nucleus which had been 

 destroyed by the enlargement of the primary embryo-sac. — " On the 

 classification of the natural orders Camimnulace(B and Oleacece,^'' by 

 G. Bentham. Professor A. Dickson exhibited and described his 

 microscopic preparations illustrating the root-like projections from the 

 suspensor of the embryo of Tropceolum. (See Keport of Edinburgh 

 Bot. Soc. for Feb. 4.) 



25otanical HJetD^ef. 



Aeticles in Jouenaxs. 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. (Jan.) — Memoir of Alex. Skofitz (with por- 

 trait). — Weisner, ''Notes of work done in the Physiological Labora- 

 tory in Vienna Institute." — W. Vatke, " Plantae in itiiiere Africano 

 ab J". M. Hildebrandt collectae ; ScrophulariacecB (4 new species, Ur- 

 bania, gen. nov.) — A. Kerner, "Distribution of Hungarian plants" 

 (contd.). — J. Gremblich, '' Bot. Kotes from the Northern * Kalk- 

 alpen'." — J. Wiesbaur, '■'' Marruhium r^/woifww. Kit., and Uieracium 

 sahaudumy — H. Wawra, " On Eucahjptiis-QM\.ii\QXioTi in Pola." — M. 

 Winkler, " Notes on a journey in Spain " (contd. j. 



Pebeuaey. 



Journ. Linyi. Soc. (vol. xiv., n. 78, Feb. 1st). — M. T. Masters, 

 ** Notes on the bracts of Crucifers." — W. H. Colvill, '* Observations on 

 the Botanical productions of the province of Baghdad." — C. B. Clarke, 

 " On Hieracium Silhetense, &c." — M. T. Masters, " On the Restiacea 

 of Thunberg's herbarium." — Mrs. Merrifield, " On the fruit of Nito- 

 ■phyllum versicolor."'' — C. B. Clarke, "Notes on Indian Gentianacece.''^ 



D. Oliver, ** Note on a fruit from Comassi." — J. Stirton, " Additions 



to Lichen-Flora of New Zealand." — J. D. Hooker, " On the discovery 

 of Phylica arborea, Thouars, in Amsterdam Island ; and enumeration of 

 Phanerogams and Vascular Cryptogams of that island and of St. Paul." 

 — H. Bolus, " On Flora of Cape Colony." 



Monthly Microsc. Journ. — R. Braithwaite, ^^ Sphagnum interme- 

 dium, Hoffm. , and S. cuspidatum, Ehrh. (tab. 92, 93). 



Bot. Zeitung. — J. Tschistiakoff, " On development of spores and of 

 pollen" (contd.).— A. W. Eichler, "On BdaUophyium:'—L. 



