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strating the occurrence of chlorophyll in cells which contained no 
starch, or the growth of the green globules after the starch-grains have 
vanished, and in other cases the simultaneous increase of starch an 
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chlorophyll grains in the same cells, Mo as shown the groundless- 
of Mulder’s hypothesis, that chlorophyll is formed of starch altered 
by deoxydation, and 1 olution of oxygen by green foliage is 
merely the result of this supposed transformation of starch into green 
coloring matt a e maintains th propriate evi- 
dence, he has a abundantly piglet coche the p rincipal mass of chloro- 
phyll-grains to consist of a substa allied to protoplasm, which 
certainly cannot originate from a se of the constituents of 
tarch. G. 
4. The Seeds of Magnolia.—In a paper read before the ieee © 
Society in November r last (of which 2 specie is given in Ann. and 
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from the first, and has the vessels of the rhaphe imbedded in it, thick- 
ening still more as the seed grows, becomes the red fleshy envelope, 
ace ment; the inner coat e anwhile remaining thin, 
nd forming a delicate membrane more or less closely adherent to the 
albumen view, ateeernes is correct only as respects the 
innermost ts of the A.G 
5. Bertoloni: " Miscellanea ie fase. 13 & 4. Bologna, 18 
These fasciculi contain each ana cademical lecture, and the characters 
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the specimens collected og years ago in Al by Dr. Gates, and 
distributed to su enumerate the seven plants here named, 
escribed, and figured, ee show what Signor Bertoloni makes of them. 
(1.) His Nicotiana humilis a new species with opposite leaves! is 
Dipteracanthus ciliosus, N 
( ersea longipeda, of “which the. author may truly say, “ Non 
reperio inter debe hactenus evulgates,” since it is evidently Chryso- 
anus oblongifo 
(3.) Trichosienma aenpbeclaines isquckily of the right family and 
wergy tis T. lineare, Nu 
4.) adie tubu lose is Macranthera fuschioides, Torr. 
A hag: Eeeericm punciulosum is H. cistifolium, Lam. (H. opacum, 
orr. & 
(6.) oa Plumieri is A. Cruv-Andrea, Lin 
Sold ) Empetrum aciculare is Ceratiola pesiaes, Michx. A, G 
