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mina of which are supported on a large filament divided into 
two at each extremity, while the two other filaments are 
barren: the fruit is quite similar to the metrosideros.. 
The third is named calytrix, and is known by its tubu- 
lous calyx above the germ, and divided into five parts, each 
terminated by a long bristle. The capsule only contains 
one grain. 
The fourth has received the name of cephalotus, and be- 
longs to the rosaceous tribe: the species named follicularia 
is perhaps still more remarkable than the saracenia and the 
nepenthes, by the form of some of the leaves, which repre- 
sent very distinctly a purse full of shoots, surmounted by 
an operculum edged by crotchets directed towards its inte- 
rior. 
The fifth, named actinotus, has all the appearances of a 
plant of the family of the corymbifera, although in reality 
it belongs to that of the wmlellifera. The two stigmata are 
swelled out towards the top, and are surmounted in the in- 
ternal side by a bristle, which gives thein the appearance of 
the antenne of insects, as in the /agoecia: it has only one 
seed, 
The sixth, named prosanthera, belongs to the numerous 
family of the Jabiate. The calyx is formed of two entire 
divisions ; the Jargest of which inclines towards the other, 
and covers it-as soon as the corolla has fallen. A thready- 
like appendage issues from below each of the anther. The 
fruit is the same as that of the prasium genus; but it is 
very remarkable in this family, that the embryo orcorculum 
is inclosed in a fleshy and thick albumen, while in the other 
labiata hitherto observed, it is uncovered. 
[To be continued.] 
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF TURIN. 
Two memoirs lately presented to this society have been 
well received. The one is by M. Freylino, relative to the 
extraction of a saccharine matter found very abundantly in 
the fruit of the black mulberry tree, and which may be ceco- 
- nomically extracted, either in the state of syrup or concrete 
sugar, The author confined himself to the extraction of the 
syrup, 
