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tion, is unlikely, because, with so many vineyards of perfect grapes, at times 
some of these would get fertilized from stray pollen, and thus we should occa- 
sionally find seeds in dried corinths, which we do not. But old writers on the 
which case they are double the size (see Prince’s Treatise on the Vine, pp. 97, 
98, copied, probably, from Duhamel). They are, perhaps, rejected when the 
currants are being prepared. 
However, the object of my note was to refer to the fact of the existence of 
male plants ; and the hypothesis in reference to the seedless grapes was intro- 
duced rather to stimulate inquiry as to what the facts really are in relation to 
their real nature and organization.—Zhomas Meehan, in Proc. Philadelphia 
Acad. 1867, pp. 98, 99. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Chinchona Species of New Granada, containing the Botanical De- 
scriptions of the Species examined by Drs. Mutis and Karsten ; with 
some account of those Botanists, and of the results of their labours. 
By Crements R. ManknaM, F.L.S. With Notes by J. E. Howard. 
London: Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. 1867. 8vo. 
140 pp. 
The Chinchonological writings of Dr. Mutis, a Spanish botanist, 
whom Humboldt and Bonpland visited at Bogota in New Granada, 
after being buried for fifty years in a toolshed at Madrid, have at last 
seen the light. We wish we could add that Mr. Markham, to whom 
we are indebted for rescuing them, had also succeeded in obtaining 
copies of the plates by which they are illustrated, for without them we 
are in reality not much wiser than we were before, having to rely for 
our identification of the species and “ varieties” of Mutis to imperfect 
botanical descriptions, in which some of the most essential, even ge- 
neric, characters are omitted; and we therefore trust that Mr. Mark- 
ham and Mr. Howard, in the interest of science, will spare no pains 
to get possession of these illustrations, as they are in fact morally 
bound to do, after throwing so many synonyms on our hands without 
clearing them up. Indeed, the barks of New Granada and Columbia 
in the widest (Bolivarian) sense, would form a suitable companion 
volume to Mr. Howard’s justly esteemed * Quinologia of Pavon.' 
The writings of Mutis on the bark-trees of New Granada are sup- 
plemented by those of Dr. Karsten, well known in their German dress, 
