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would be dotted over with solitary trees or small clusters representing our 
Loganiacee. Many of these may be very near to the surrounding w 
projecting parcels annexed to the adjoining woods 
n a careful examination, it will be found that almost the whole of the 
Loganiacee lie very near to some part or other of the vast field of Rubz- 
acee, although by their free ovary they are absolutely and (with very few 
another is the suppression of the genus Jgnatia, it being proved to ha 
been founded on the blossoms of the Rubiaceous genus Posoquerva and 
e seed of a Strychnos. i 
4. The Flowers of the Pea-Nut (Arachis Hypogea, L.)—Mr. BEN- 
THAM authorises us to state that the views formerly published by him 
attributing to Arachis two very distinct kinds o flowers,—namely, 
achlamydeous and fertile, the other complete but sterile, 
fied are incorrect. The mistake here acknowldged was first pointed out. 
by Hugh M. Neisler, Esq., last year, in this Journal (vol. 19, 2nd ser., p. 
212, March, 1855). Mr. Neisler, who has enjoyed the best i AO 
of studying the living and fruitful plant in a, where it is cultivat 
on that “the flowers of Arachis hypo- 
In gardens, came to the conclusi 
ga are all petal-bearing and all fertile. 
found fecundated ovaries very 
from the base of the style in the unopen 
yet after some time I succeeded in tracing, 4s Mr, Neisler has done in 
