112 Scientific Intelligence. 
complete this volume. The second, devoted to the Monopetale h 
tended to the third fasciculus. Thus far it is mainly occupied w 
Composite, Rubiacee, Apocynee and Asclepiadca. Meanwhile thei 
fatiguble author has “ag two parts of the third volume, devote 
Monocotyledones. The work appears to be faithfully elaborated, and 
must be highly useful to xi stematic botanists and creditable to the author 
ral 
ot 
8. Walpers: Annales Botanices Systematice.—The second fascia 
of Dr. Mueller’s continuation of this work has come to hand. It extends 
on a the Vympheeacee to the Sterculiacee,—at which rate a series 
f volumes will be mt soir to bring up the arrears of scattered —_ 
pb since the yea 
ahrbiicher fir Wissenschaflliche Botanik : herausg. von Dr. N 
ce Berlin. Vol. I, part 1, 1857, large 8vo, pp. 138, with 10 
plates—This new work is to be devoted to original articles upon scienti 
botany | in the strictest sense, and especially to the departments in which 
its editor is so distinguished, viz. Vegetable Anatomy a gic 
The first ara is by Dr. —— himself, one of a seri nee 
= a 
connexion with, t 1e Sewicapanie &: 
gether have thrown new light upon this part of vans e physiol 
demonstrating that their reproduction is as truly sexual as that o t hight e 
plants and more directly com parable with that of animals 
The remainder of this fasciculus is oceupied by New Researches u 
h 
bane, we 
rium. He Dies that in some eases traces of a cell-w 
been the germinal vesicle anterior to their Teasnlintion by the poll 
5. Radlkofer ; 
on The Process of Fecundation in the Vegetable. 
our previous artic 
sto Fungi and Lichenes,—thanks to the observations of Itzigs se 
upon the latter, and the most careful and persevering investigatio’s 7 
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bility are discovered, i: their general presence recognized ; but the the fact 
of fecundation is not made ont. 
In the lower or gen a fecundation was first demonstrated by 
Pringsheim. The of Vaucheria which Vaucher half a ey | 
ago o observ ed ‘seibbesdels: to ie male organs, Pringsheim m proved #@ 
