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natural to lament the absence of more liiglily magnified dissections. 

 On turning, therefore, to the English edition of Le Maout and 

 Decaisne, p. 529, I was much struck by the figure representing the 

 fruit of Cyclamen cut vertically, in which two sepals are cut away, 

 and what are apr)arently two fibro-vascular bundles, each having 

 three visible terminal branches, are represented on the surface of 

 the section of the large central placenta. If this figure be correct, '•' 

 and a similar structure occur in the other genera, it would seem 

 that we have in this order five congenitally suppressed lateral 

 branch tubercles to the axial placenta, i. e. five lateral growing- 

 points. Possibly fm-tlier suppressed branching, as indicated by the 

 bundles, may give origin to further mtercalary zones of growth, 

 and the ai3j)arently abnormal basix3etal development of the ovules 

 may be thus explained. 



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EuMEx MAXI3IUS. — You may be interested in a new locality for 

 this plant. Having noticed some strongly cordate leaves (which 

 I had decided to be those of it. maMmus) at Alfiiston, on the Cuck- 

 mere Kiver, East Sussex, in June last, I went there on August 

 12th to see the fi*uit. I then found that both leaves and fruit 

 correspond to R. inaxiinus of very extreme form (as I think you 

 will see from the s^Decimens I now send you). I wish to draw 

 attention to the strongly cordate or subcordate form of the leaves 

 in all stages of growth ; the shape of the very young leaves is 

 especially striking. I could find no R. Hydrolapatlium at this 

 locality, and hardly anything at all approaching it. That species 

 is also absent from Mr. Warren's Lewes locality for R. maximus, 

 though abundant enough in other parts of the O.use about Lewes. 

 R. maximiis does not with us attain the size, either in leaves or in 

 stem, that R. Hijdrolapathum does; it cannot therefore be correct 

 to attribute its peculiar characteristics to luxuriance. — J. H. A. 

 Jenner. [The specimens kindly sent with the above note are the 

 best and most typical R. maximus I have seen from any part of 

 England. The young leaves are broadly oval or sub-ovate, and 

 remind one at first sight of it*. ohtusifoUus. The county of Hants 

 may also be added to the area of this ^olant in England, Mr. F. J. 

 Warner ha\dng found it abundantly near Winchester. — Ed. Journ. 



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KuBus PuRCHAsii, Blox. (sce p. 2.08). — This plant was found 

 by the Eev. A. Bloxam and myself, in the hedge of a meadow near 

 the Overhurst Farm, in the parish of Alstonfield, about two years 

 ago. I had taken Mr. Bloxam, who was sx)ending a few days 

 here, to see Paihusfissiis growing about the banks of a streamlet at 



* A brief examination of some dried capsules of Cyclamen lead me to think 

 Decaisne's figure to be perfectly accurate. 



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