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Contents of the ' Botanical Gazette ''for February, 1850. 



Review of the Swiss Characese. By Al. Braun. [Translation 

 from the ' Flora ' of March 7, 1849.] 



Cornish Plants not included in the * Cybele Britannica.' By Fran- 

 cis P. Pascoe. [A list of species, ascertained by Mr. Pascoe, or 

 reported on other authority, to grow in the county of Cornwall ; but 

 which are not specially mentioned as Cornish plants in the first vo- 

 lume of the ' Cybele Britannica.' Sixty-eight species are enumerated, 

 including some introduced plants, and about twenty which have not 

 been seen by Mr. Pascoe himself, either living or in a dried state. 

 Ranunculus tripartitus (E. B. Supp.) may be added to the list.] 



Literature. Including a review of Harvey's ' Manual of the British 

 Marine Algae' ; and monthly list of contents of botanical journals. 



Proceedings of Societies. Botanical Society of Edinburgh ; Tyne- 

 side Naturalists' Field Club ; Alnwick Scientific and Mechanical In- 

 stitution. 



Miscellanea. Record of Localities ; Additional Note on the cap- 

 sules of Viola, by W. H. Purchas, Esq. ; Natural History of the Date, 

 from Journ. de Pharmacie et de Chimie ; New method of drying 

 plants ; Collections of Zeyher's South African Plants on sale. 



Extracts from the ' Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. 1 

 (Continued from page 789.) 



On the Development of the Ovule in Orchis Morio, L., by Arthur 

 Henfrey, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 

 The paper contains the results of a series of observations made in 

 May, 1848, which Mr. Henfrey presents to the Society, partly be- 

 cause he believes that in the present state of the question all evidence 

 derived from careful observation is of some value, and partly because 

 he has succeeded in obtaining a more complete series of figures illus- 

 trating the successive conditions of the ovule than has yet been pub- 

 lished ; Mohl, who gives the most complete account of the development 

 in Orchis Morio, having given no drawings. In the first stage, ex- 

 amined on the 3rd of May, the ovules of flowers which were just 

 opened and were without signs of pollen on the stigmatic surface, 

 were just curving over towards the anatropous position ; the nucleus 



