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plants. This author definitely confirms my statements in re- 
spect of the independent formation of sucrose jn leaves. The 
reviewer says: 
“ Les expériences de M. A. Girard mettent hors de doute que les limbes 
fabriquent alors des saccharose et des sucres réducteurs.” 
M. Girard shows the Possibility of leaves developing starch 
from sucrose, but there appears to be no evidence that the 
reverse of this operation takes place. 
Notes on Umbelliferse of E. United States. 1] 
JOHN M, COULTER AND dea ROSE. 
(WITH PLATE II.) 
NGELICA L.— Fruit strongly flattened dorsally, 
{ broadly winged at the commissure: Carpel with 5 strong 
involucels, and white or greenish flowers.—Incl. “Archan- 
gelica Hoftm., excl. A. Gmelins DC. — Archangelica 18 
referred to Angelica by Maximowicz, Bull. Acad., Petersb., 
a. 273- € only characters serving to separate Archan- 
gelica from Angelica break down. The number of oil-ducts 
in the intervals, while usuall 
issii may be tw 
he generic relation of neither of these species can be deter- 
cter drawn from the oil-ducts, and plac- 
In January GAZEITE, - 14, third 
of Angelica and Conioselintim, se 
tence from bottom, in contrasting the characters 
ribs’’) might be understood to ‘ 
t 
the last clanse ( ,_ especially conspicuous under the lateral 
refer to Conioselinum, It refers to Angelica. 
