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form is to be looked upon as the characteristic one; the elliptical 
being the dry state of the pollen, while the spherical is the moist con- 
dition. The true structure is rendered more apparent by an applica- 
tion of iodine. The pollen of Cycads is stated by many to be 
angular. This, at all events, is not the form in Zamia horrida. ‘The 
observations on the latter, he stated to have been made by Mr. 
George Morris. Specimens of the pollen were shown under the 
microscope. 
Muscology of the East Coast of Fife. 
‘ Notice of the Muscology of the East Coast of Fife” By the Rev. 
Thomas Brown. ‘The author offered some observations on the dis- 
tribution of mosses on the east coast of Scotland, with reference more 
particularly to such stations as the Sands of Barrie, the Tents’ Muir, 
Khe and Gullane Links, which, although all situated close to the sea- 
shore, presented several alpine species. He particularly entered upon 
a detail of the mosses found by him in the neighbourhood of Elie, 
which included a variety of Mnium affine, not previously found in 
fruit in Britain, Bryum dealbatum, Hypnum abietinum, Didymodon 
inclinatus, Encalypta rhaptocarpa, and other unusual species. 
Antheridia of the Rhamnee. 
‘Note on the supposed Antheridia of the Rhamnee.’ By J.S. B. 
Sanderson, M.D. Dr. Sanderson, after a careful examination of the 
buds of various species of Rhamnus, particularly of R. catharticus, 
considered that the bodies supposed by Grisebach to be antheridia 
were not so, and that the club-shaped organs described by him, dif- 
fered from antheridia in not being developed from a single special 
mother-cell, in not possessing a central cavity at any period of their 
growth, and in containing a resinous secretion. He could not 
detect the “long-tailed globules enclosed in minute spherical cells,” 
described by Grisebach as oscillating in a very lively manner. The 
paper was illustrated by drawings. 
Anatomical Structure of Conifere, Sc. 
‘On the Anatomical Structure of Conifere and other Gymnogens.’ 
By Mr. G. Lawson. ‘The author remarked that he had recently 
been engaged in an examination of the minute anatomy of Gymno- 
