388 The Botanical Gazette. -. [November, 
E MORPHOLOGY OF THE FLOWER of Anthoxanthum has been 
studied by Mr. Theo. Holm in malformed flowers found in the Smith- 
sonian park, at Washington, D.C. The subject forms an illustrated 
THE Journal of Botany for October contains the description of a 
new Ranunculus from W. Scotland, allied apparently to R. Flammula, 
Mr. Baker’s Synopsis of Malvez continues with species of Sida, this 
number containing 6 new species. The Rev.W. Moyle Rogers also con- 
tinues his “Essay at a Key to British Rubi”, which if successful will be 
agreat relief to British botanists. Mr. George Massee also pays his 
respects in a sprightly fashion to Mr. G. Romanes, in a review of his 
“Darwin and after Darwin. 
Prof. Geo. L. Goodale and Prof. John M. Coulter, which are printed 
in full, there are eighteen botanical papers, all but two in the form of 
very brief abstracts, often consisting of only a few lines. The papers 
by Professors Bessey and Beal, on transpiration and movement of 
water in plants, cover four pages each. 
have pefectly developed archegonia. This clearly a eee 
two cells 
ng into 
a prothallium, where normally only the lower so develops. Or, 
bid sncependant mother cells may possibly have developed into pro 
allia. 
