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Rebiews. 
On the “ Cinchonaceous Glands” in Galiacez (Stellate), and 
on the relations of that Order to Cinchonacee. By Grorce 
Lawson, F.R.P.S., F.B.S.E., Demonstrator of Botany and 
Vegetable Histology to the University of Edinburgh. 
The author of this Paper has discovered that stipulary glands 
are not confined to the Section of Rubiacee inhabiting chiefly 
the tropical or warmer regions of the earth, and which are re- 
markable for the beauty of their vegetation, as well as for their 
valuable dietetic and medicinal products, but finds that these pe- 
culiar secretions are present in the meaner and less useful portion 
of the Order, viz. in Stellate, which inhabits the colder regions, 
and is neither distinguished for much beauty nor utility. Aspe- 
rula odorata (common Woodruff) yields a very fragrant and very 
permanent odour,—whether depending on these glands or not our 
author does not inform us. We are obliged to him for direct- 
ing our attention to the fact that glands exist on all the Gali- 
aceous plants which he, the author, examined in a fresh or re- 
cently collected state, and he presumes, not unreasonably, that 
glands exist in all plants of the Order. He further tells us that 
the glands which are present only on the stipules of the Cincho- 
naceous portion of Rudiacee are present on all the foliaceous 
organs (leaves) of Stellate. Hence he infers that as glands cha- 
racterize the stipules in Cinchona, etc., glands will characterize 
stipules in Stel/ate; or, in other words, that the leaves of Stellate 
plants are not leaves but stipules, and that Stel/ate (Galiaceze) are 
leafless plants with whorls of stipules. Our author suggests that 
this view may be less objectionable than those either of Dr. 
Lindley, De Candolle, or Mr. Bentham ; but candidly admits that 
he does not see how it could help us out of the difficulty. We are 
not disposed to grapple with what is admitted to be a difficulty by 
the eminent botanists just named; and besides this, the object. 
of our Journal is to supply our readers with a history of facts, not 
of opinions. We are delighted to publish discoveries of facts, 
and Mr. Lawson’s paper announces the fact that glands are pre- 
sent on the leaves of Stel/ate, and that these glands are similar 
to those on Cinchonacee. But the theory of the identity or the 
distinctness of these two groups, or, in other words, the existence 
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