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and Britain, Their researches show the presence of remarkable 

 filamentous processes to the dermal layer, which is composed of a 

 loose cellular envelope, permitting the existence of large subdermal 

 areas. The more compact inner cellular structure has radiating fibres 

 passing through it, which are modified at their joints. — " On N'ew 

 Zealand Ferns" (two papers), by J. H. Potts. — "Lichens from the 

 island of Rodriguez collected by J. B. Balfour," by Rev. J. M, 

 Crombie. — Mr. S. H. Vines gave an account of some experiments on 

 the nature of the digestive ferment of Nepenthes. He considers it 

 conclusively proved that in this plant phenomena equivalent to the 

 digestive processes of animals obtain. 



25otamcal l^eto^. 



Articles in Jouenals. — Jxtxe. 



Bot. Zeitung. — F. W. C. Areschoug, "On two Rii})i of Weihe " 

 {R.foliosxis and H.fuscus). — V. de Borbas, "Conspectus Dianthorum 

 dubiorum et affinium." — R. A. Philippi, " On the Sandal-wood tree 

 of Juan Fernandez I." — E. Reuther, " Researches on the develop- 

 ment of flowers " (tab. 6, 7). 



Flora. — J. Sachs, " On emulsion-figures and the grouping of 

 swarm-spores in water" (tab. 10). — A. de Krempelhuber " Lichenes 

 brasilienses " (contd.). — W. Nylander, "Lichens coll. in Egypt by 

 Larbalestier." — C. Luerssen, "Vascular Cryptogams of the voyage of 

 the Donau" (contd.). 



Hedwigia. — H. F. Bonorden, " Mycological notes" (contd.). — 

 I^. Sorokin, " On the distribution of CronastmmP 



(Esterr. Bot. Zeitschr. — R. v. Uechtritz, " Botanical notes." — 

 V. de Borbas, " Melanthacese Florse Croaticae." — F. von. Thuemen, 

 " Three new Austrian Fungi." — Kerner, " Distribution of Hungarian 

 plants " (contd.) — J. Kugy, " Excursion through Oberkrain." — F. 

 Antoine, "Botany at Vienna Exhibition" (contd.). — A. Pruckmayr, 

 " On Leonurus Cardiaca, L." 



Trails. Linn. Soc. Lond. (ser. 2, vol. i.., pt. 3). — F, Currey, " On 

 a collection of Fungi made by S. Kurz " (mostly in Pegu). — A. W. 

 Bennett, " On the rate of growth of female flower-stalk in Vallis- 

 neria spiralis.''^ — Id., " On the growth of the flower-stalk in the 

 Hyacinth." — \V. A. Leighton, "New British Lichens" (tab. 2). — 

 F. Darwin, " On the hygroscopic mechanism by which certain seeds 

 are enabled to bury themselves in the ground" (tab. 23). 



Grevillea. — M. J, Berkeley, "Notices of N. American Fungi" 

 (concluded). — Rehm, "Note on Peziza calycina, Schum." — M. C. 

 Cooke, " On the same." — M. C. Cooke and J. B. Ellis, " Some New- 

 Jersey Fungi." — Fries, " Note on Gillet's ' Champignons.' " 



Bull. Soc. Bot. France (IS75, pt, 3).— C. Roumeguere, " De Notaris, 

 Hepaticse of Borneo." — Id., " On the synonymy and area of growth 

 of Agaricus Paiomet, Thr." — G. de S. Pierre. " Hybrids between 

 Primula officinalis ? and P. grandiflora, var. hortensis$ ." — Loret, " On 



