130 Scientific Intelligence. 
iting the whole development of the principal organs of the blossom, 
from their earliest appearance to the completed flower-bud. Such in- 
vestigations are of high importance ; although they are not likely to 
modify very materially views soundly based upon comparison of floral 
characters. Still they often furnish data for elucidating obscure points 
of botanical affinity or morphology, or a decisive test of the correct- 
an ingenious hypothesis ;—data which M. Payer sometimes 
turns to good account, although he cannot be said thus far to evince 
any remarkable aptitude for the discussion of such questions. We no- 
tice here and there points brought forward as new which have been 
elsewhere published for some time. A. G. 
%. The Micrographic Dictionary; by GrirritH and Henrrey. (Van 
Voorst, London.)—Parts III, IV, and V, have reached us since our last 
notice of this valuable work: the latter ending, on page 128, with the 
article Ceruminous glands. The articles which strike us as most inter- 
esting and important are those upon Angular aperture, Blood, Bone 
(which is admirably illustrated), and the Cell, especially that on the 
Vegetable cell. A. @ 
8. The Individual in Plants, in its relation to Species, is the title of 
a recent Memoir by Professor Braun of Berlin, of so much general 
interest, and so ably handled, that we hope we may be able to publisl 
a copious abstract of it in a future number of this Journal. A. G. 
2. the Influence of the Solar Radiations on the Vital Powers 
of Plants growing under different Atmospheric Conditions ; by J. H. 
GuapsTonE, (Proc. Brit. Assoc., Athen., 1405.) 
grows unnaturally tall, and there isa poor development of leaves 1? 
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