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flowers was blooming abundantly. I made a short excursion to the small town 
Santa Rosa de los Andes, at the foot ofthe Cordillera. "There the lower hills 
there I made the acquaintance of the MNolanacee for the first time; Alona 
lestis cepe the lower slopes of the hills, yn two species of Sorema being 
abundant o e lower ground. ‘There, also, I saw for the first time the Ari- 
stolochia riii the enti Title Seitan, Carica — 
Llagunoa glandulosa, Sc m us fimbriatus, two sp of nia, 
Trichopetalum, etc. Were oo to Valparaiso in the bise of vanae 
and here we have been since. There is now a wonderful variety of plants in 
flower on the hills and intersecting quenadas,— T'ropeolum tricolorum, two 
yellow MBit a yellow and a deep purple Ovalis, a scarlet Alonsoa, 
several species of Ginothera, Pisathea cerulea, Puya coarctata, a Verbena, 
Adesmia salpigossi , Argemone, Tupa, Schizanthus, Anemone, Polygala, etc., 
ge yw in for 
NINGHAM." VII. Report on the Open Air Vegetation at the Royal Bota tanic 
Garden. By Mr. M‘Nab. VIII. Report on the Botanic Gardens of Natal. 
By Mr. J. M. Ken, Curato: 
Thursday, February 11. - ain Jenner, aie Vice-President, in the chair. 
ead :— 
= a spacial anne of pr » order to test the accuracy of the state- 
nts conclusions to which he has arrived :— 
L "The same specimen, i iu the han ds ie the same operator, in its different parts, 
at different times, frequently exhibits colour-reactions different at least in de- 
ee. 2. The same species, in the hands of tlie same operator, and, still more 
ing equally in kind and degree. 3. Col orific quality i is determined by cire 
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States of development, in relation to sterility, hypertrophy, or degeneration of 
ie Yvepialde tissues uper 4. This ineonstancy of colorific property leads 
ver lis depend on laboratory testings in the purchase 
of his *orchella weed," or in determining its commercial value; for it not un- 
