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the term palet being restricted to that bract or scale formerly known as. 
the upper palet. Several other needful changes of terms will occur to the 
botanist, as well as in the loose employment of the terms ovary and seed. 
on page 15.-GEORGE VASEY. 
Monographix Phanerogamarum. Vol. quintum, pars secunda. Am 
lide. Auctore J. E. Planchon. Pp. 305-654. Paris, July, 1887. 
Few groups of plants are more perplexing than the one forming the 
Bentham and Hooker in their Genera Plantarum group three genera un- 
der Ampelidex, viz.: Vitis (including Ampelopsis and the large tropical 
genus Cissus), with 230 species; Pterisanthes, with three; and Leea, with 
about twenty. Planchon, in the monograph before us, does not include. 
Leea as being among the true Ampelidez; accepts Pterisanthes as de- 
fined, but increases its species to eleven; and of Bentham and Hookers: 
Vitis makes nine genera. Vrris is left with twenty-eight species, and in 
it are all our American vines (sixteen in number) except the few note 
further on. V. araneosa Leconte, from N. Georgia and Athens, IIl., 18 
new to our manuals, and the V. monticola of Eng. is V. Berlandieri Plan- 
chon. AMPELOCISSUS is a new tropical genus of sixty-two species, hereto 
fore included under Vitis, none of which concern us, except two in Mex- 
ico and one in the West Indies. Ciemaricissus is the Australian Vitis 
Ampelopsis cordata Mx., and Vitis bipinnata T. & G., which was V.arbore® 
The Development of the Ostrich Fern. B : bell, Eb 
Ceresg Us TN. Douglas Houghton Cam apes 
D. Memoirs of the Bost. Soc, Nat. Hist, Vol. IV, No. 2. Pp. 17-53, 
With four plates. Boston, April, 1887. 
cy This is the Walker prize essay of 1886, that was so worthil 
r.Campbell. Sincé that time the author has been studying in Germany 
with Strasburger, Pfeffer, and now with Kny, and we predict for him 4 
very successful botanical career. The bef s gives evidence % 
paper before us g veohnieal 
fine ability, and is a model in its way. It is so compact and 
avy dee han dly admits of a review further than a notice of its conte a 
i points discussed the author himself sums up *% — 
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