Zhe Botanical (3a3ette 



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Issued February 20, 1909 



VoL XL VII CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY 1909 No. 2 



RELATION OF SOIL AND VEGETATION ON SANDY SEA SHORES (with twelve 



figures). Pehr Olsson-Seffer 85 



SOME ASPECTS OF AMITOSIS IN SYNCHYTRIUM (with plates hi and iv). Robert 



F. Griggs 127 



ASCULAR ANATOMY OF THE SEEDLING OF MICROCYCAS CALOCOMA. Contri- 

 butions from the Hull Botanical Laboratory 122 (with plates v and vi). 



Helen Angela Dorety -... 139 



WEFER ARTICLES 



The Nature of Balanced Solutions. W. J. V. Osterkout - - ( - - - - M8 

 he Extrafascicular Cambium of Ceratozamia. Contributions from the Hull 



Botanical Laboratory 123 (with plate vii). Helen A. Dorety - - - 150 

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BOOK REVIEWS - 153 



GRAY'S NEW MANUAL OF BOTANY. HEREDITY. LABOULBENIALES. AFRICAN PLANTS 

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