436 Scientific [ntelligence. 
Arachis, the change from the one to the other. The moment the style 
breaks off, the lower fragment curves back, and forms at the end of it 
what I always took for a thickened stigmatic surface ;. but it is a mere 
¢allosity which, when examined under the microscope, ‘shows no stigmatic 
papilla. Loth as I am to be convinced of so gross an error, I must beg 
of you to do amende leases for me to Mr. Neisler in any way you may 
think proper.”—We are still inclined to think, but without a fresh exam- 
ination, that the more fruitful flowers of Stylo santhes and Lespedeza, 
though similar to the others in structure, are commonly pronecionil 
fertilized in the bud, as they are in Jmpatiens and many other plants, in 
fonble however, the fully-developed blossoms ee ot fruitful bees 
vorab) 
5. Mar ahsk ons Brasiliensis ; = 16 and 17, 1856.—This impe 
Flora i is now 7 carried on with such spirit that this new and large oat ‘ot 
nt 
aor the sis of Prof. Miquel, of Amsterdam. ‘It comprises first the 
Prim hese are insignificant both in number and antenest in the 
from the Styracacew, and some Brazilian species are noticed W 
as few as five stamens.—Von Martius himself has illustrated three 
able genera incerte sedis, n namely, Diclidanthera and Moutabea, which 
he develops the aftinities of with eat acuteness, and regards as a Monde 
petalous, regular, and generally rcapebae form of Polygalacee ; and 
Hornschuchia, which, with all its anomalies, he refers to the Lardizabalew. 
tees present part is illustrated by 50 plates, besides two Tabula aog! 
mice, 
6. L. R. Tulasne: Monographia Monimiacearum. Paris, 1855; 
163, tab. 10—An admirable memoir, contributed to the 2886 Me 
Museum @ Histoire Naturelle, vol. 8, illustrating a a family of plants, 
long of obscure affinity. These ‘for the most part been map ni 
