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ner on an herbaceous shoot, the operation is not fatal, the leayes continue healthy, 
the part of the branch above the incision survives along time, anda “ bourrelet” 
may be produced. 
The author has, by experiment, established that these different results are due 
to the ascent of sap through all the ligneous layers in the herbaceous shoots, and 
only through the exterior layers in shoots of two years or more, 
6. The positions given to the incision have a real influence on the consequent 
physiological phenomena ; thus the partial incisions made, one above the origin of 
a branch, another under the origin of a branch (7. e. if subject to the same condi- 
tions), cause in one branch the formation of a voluminous “bourrelet” on the 
superior lip of an annulation made above the first incision; in the other branch, if 
the incision is made under the origin of the branch, the “bourrelet” is scarcely 
visible. 
Experiments already made on this subject indicate an evident relation between 
the ascent and descent of sap with respect to the quantity and the movements. 
7. The nature of the matter with which the wound made by the incision is covered 
has an influence upon its healing. In applying the mastic employed in grafting, 
either to the branches in a normal state or to the cuttings, we have discovered 
that it quickens the vegetative power in the branches, and prolongs it, but does 
not ensure their preservation. India-rubber acts more efficaciously ; it accelerates 
considerably the formation of the reparative tissue, and its use might be recom- 
mended in horticulture. 
8. The starting-point of the effects of annular incision is the alteration of the 
ligneous layers exposed to the air and to evaporation, in consequence of the re- 
moval of the bark. The ascent of the sap can no longer take place through the 
wounded tissues, hence the leaves fade, the course of the descending sap is im- 
peded, and finally suspended ; consequently the formation of the reparative tissue 
becomes impossible. Such is the mechanism which seems to the author to explain 
more rationally the facts, at any rate, concerning stems and small branches. 
On a new British Moss, Hypnum Bambergeri. By Joun Fraser, 1.A., MD. 
One day towards the end of July 1867, while botanizing on Ben Lawers, the 
author found a moss which appeared to be new. It was afterwards submitted to 
Mr. Wilson of Warrington, Mr. G. E. Hunt of Manchester, Dr. Braithwaite, and 
others, all of whom were satisfied that it had not previously been observed in this 
country. It was the Hypnum Bambergeri of Schimper, which was discovered by 
Bamberger on the Stockhorn, Switzerland, afterwards on the Bavarian Alps, and 
in Norway. It was found by the author, not on low swampy ground, as might 
have been expected, but high up among the broken rocks, near the summit of the 
mountain, Its range appears to be from 3500 to 7000 feet, and its position in the 
genus Hypnum between HH. imponens and I. callichroum. 
The following is a pretty correct description of it:—It occurs in rather small 
dense tufts, yellowish-ereen above, passing to yellow fuscous at the base; stem 
without radicles, subpinnate, with a few fastigiate branches; leaves densely 
crowded, secund, strongly circinnate, ovato-lanceolate, elongated, entire, with a 
long ovate point; nerves two, faint, one usually longer than the other; alar cells 
few, rather obscure, yellow, upper ones linear, elongate, pale; fruit unknown, but 
female flowers not unfrequent. 
Notice of a Male Octopodous Cuttlefish and some other Cephalopoda. 
By Rosertr Garner, L.L.8. 
Amongst a parcel of Cephalopoda from Sardinia occurred a specimen of a male 
animal which the author thought possessed some interest. Were one not aware 
that the male Argonaut is a very diminutive animal, and also the curious process 
by which the eggs of the female are fertilized, one might have set down the 
ieee in question as the male of that mollusk. This cannot well be done, and 
therefore the author supposed it to be a species of Z'iremoctopus, and, indeed, it had 
aquiferous pores, at the base of the lowest arms or feet, leading into cavities above 
