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Northern Japan, before the Montreal Horticultural Society; and Plants in 
their relation to disease, before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, both 
by Prof. D. P. Penhallow. 
’ Davin F. Day tells us, in the Gardener’s Monthly, for January, that he 
has given much thought to the relation of the form of the flower to its position 
on the plant, and has arrived at the following conclusions: ibe “A flower, 
completely regular, is normally either erect or pendulous, and (2) a flower 
which is irregular, is normally always lateral,” and furthermore adds that he 
has failed to find any published statement to this effect. By consulting Gray’s 
Structural Botany, p. 219, he will see that Sprengel made the observation nearly 
a century ago, and also had a fair notion of its gignificance. Mr. 
notes that where the flower is erect the stamens exceed the pistils in length, but 
where pendulous the pistils exceed the stamens, i. e., the anthers in either case 
are above the stigmas. This is, however, an empirical rule to which many ex- 
ceptions are easily found, and is only valuable as in the preceding case, when 
considered in connection with the mode of fertilization. 
; CURRENT LITERATURE. 
List of, and Notes geek the Lichens collected by Dr. T. H. Bean 
Alan ad the 
region in 1880. By Dr. throck. Pr U. at. Mus. vii. 1 
1884, Washing tf “D. is J. T. Rothroe roc. 
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ny amiliar one es students of ‘group. The list contains 110 siochak; pi 
being a new Biatora from E. Siber 
Catalogue a Canadian Meow Be Il. Gamopetale. By John Macoun. Mon- 
treal: wson Bros., 1884. 0 pp. 
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pamphlet. The catalogue 
what it needed to make it 
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