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Absorption of Rain and Dew by the Green Parts of Plants No. 7 913 

 Decrease of the Power of Absorption in Branches dipped 



in Water )> 913 



Water-p)ores » 913 



Respiration of Plants „ 914 



Respiration of Marsh and Water Plants „ 915 



Influence of Light, Warmth, and Moisture on the Opening 



and Closing of the Anthers of Bulbocodium vernum .. „ 915 



Chemical Researches on the Formation of Coal „ 915 



New Carbo-hydrate „ 916 



Calcium phosphate in the Living Cells of Plants .. .. „ 916 



B. — Ckyptogamia. 



Microbia No. 1 58 



New Cryptogamic Journals No. 2 154 



New Classification of Thallophytes „ 166 



Action of Light and Heat on Swarmspor-es (^Zoospores) . . No. 3 307 



Luerssen's Handbook of Cryptogamic Botany No. 4 445 



Anomalies in the Decelopment of the Lowest Organisms . . „ 446 



Influence of Light on the Movements of Mobile Spores . . „ 447 



Entopihytic and Entozoic {parasitic) Species of Cryptogams „ 448 



Cryptogamia Vascularia, 



The Early Development of EquisetacecB ' No. 2 157 



Organogenic Researches on the Capsule of Mosses, and on 



the Embryo of some Polypodiacea: „ 159 



Arrangement of the Cells in the flat Prothallia of Ferns . . No. 3 317 

 Apogamous Ferns and the Phenomenon of Apogamy in 



general >, 317 



Apogamy in Isoetes ,, 319 



Germination of the Schiiceacece No. 4 451 



Embryology of Vascular Cryptogams No. 5 596 



Adventitious Buds in Ferns „ 597 



Production of the first Vegetative shoot of Equisetum 



palustre )> 597 



Pi-othallium of Salvinia natans No. 6 753 



G ermination of Fern-spores No. 7 916 



Bilateralness of Prothallia „ 917 



' Development of the Prothallium of Salvinia „ 918 



Muscineee. 



Organogenic Researches on the Capsule of Mosses, and on 



the Embryo of some Pol i/podiacece No. 2 159 



Nostoc-colonies of Anthocerotece „ 187 



Origin of Tubes in the Nostoc-colonies in Blasia .. .. No. 5 598 



New Bryum No. 7 919 



Parasitism of Lichens on Mosses „ 930 



Characeae. 



Homology of the '^Nucule*' of Char acece No. 3 317 



