ae 
202 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ August, 
J. M. JANSE records! a remarkable instance of mimetism in the flow- 
ers of Maxillaria Lehmanni, from Central America, Oa the central re- 
pollow-eraias The author suggests that they are taken for pollen-grains 
hich devour them eagerly for the large quantity of starch 
which they contain. * * * The substance in question appears to be an 
epidermal structure, consisting of the detached, nearly spheroidal, constit- 
uent cells of moniliform hairs. Herr Janse believes that this is the first 
oe recorded of the occurrence of starch in hairs.—Jour. Roy. Mic. 
University Press is a guarantee of fine typographical work. The editors 
are Prof. Bayley Balfour (Oxford), Dr. Vines (Cambridge) and Dr. Farlow 
rvard most promine tanist 
issued, contains two rs by J. thur on the supposed poisonous 
alte, pein Pisum (at first called Rivularia fluitans), being the re- 
Pror. Txos. C. Porrer has issued “ A List of the Carices of Pennsyl- 
: « Ac The authority of the list, 
§ 
lowed by particular stations in ordi h 
‘Heular stations in ordinary print, and then the name of the 
ee In italics. The list eb pitibes: 199 numbers, 98 species and 4 
P i 
Ber. Deutsch, Bot. Gesell., iv (1886), Pp. 277-83. 
