4 Spe Re on AS EY 
31852. THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 39 
a portion of Algæ, that we may regard their presence as | spection might confound with the corpuscula. Not th — Bircham ; immensely large, one of our finest 
aniversal; but the conditions of the female organs | slightest confirmati the conversion of the s Wood, l Perras: Brilliant shaded rose 
previous to, and after — have not been tozoa into e os, as indicated in Ferns by czy- —Curtis. Paul Ricaut: Crimson and 3 
i a t so clearly as to enable us to Suminski, in ordance with the theories of the large and full, W Appleby 3 N- and distinet 
make any satisfactory com n with what takes place Pollinists, is afforded by the multitudinous observations | crimson, sup Curtis ; bright crimson, large and full, 
amongst P ms, or, indeed, the higher Cryptogams | of our author ne of the finest 1 sg E eane a ; deep carmi 
under similar circumstan 8 latter, The e investigation of the growth of the embryo under globular, and very beautiful Lane; bright rosy crim- 
a glance at tiful plates, conta any hun- | such differing circumstances, wou d of course give son, large ai Gat fe ; one of the most beautiful i 
dred figures, which aceompany the admirable work be- is group—Rive very large and double, e 1 
ore us, t form a por art of it, is ehe me nc pa Laer: em to this point; and one of the most n. ful Wood. The 
sufficient to show that the phenomena of impregnation | Hot confirm: of his views, but not all. may be observed in this class, with — Hybrid 
have been so far ascertain rd much rms usi mary + of (Observations with Chin: Francis. The foliage and blooms of these 
matter for comparison, but at once to eall for it. she which his work nf age py that he believes that “th 9 superb hese all ` 
t the formation | hope must be abandoned of derivin gf the mode readily known by their broad stout foliage—Paul ; they 
of the embryo, whether the meow production ia a the multiplication of cells, a require the sam as is 1 for the 
Moss 
spore-bearing theca, as in 
and other cairn ora frees or —— 
destined at period, sometimes after the lapse ‘of 
years, to 1 keene organs, ns in Ferns, taken 
in their Fer sense, comme with a 5 cell, Caki, 
on does not 1 . — 77 Altogether abor- 
tive. Itis N curious to obse th what similarity th 
is effected, though the pie ae N pics = 
i times nake in 
families, the spores first giv 9 id 
which, by — multiplication oi their cellular tissue, 
give rise e more ess lobed fronds, 
from which the archegonin, or mother sacs — — embryo, 
spring at once or eeping o ing shoo 
of greater or — Raw mean clothed with Ie leaf. like, — 
sions of 2 tissue, often of great e from 
certain which the archegonia spring, produc- 
ing in . case after impregnation an organ whieh, 
by a metamorphosis of a particuiar portion of its tissue, í 
and 8 | 
lated | shoot is formed; 
tinction between axi 
he dev 4 of leaf and stem are only quan 
pe not quali 
he fm: ist tinction roiak Nägeli e in his acute 
Ware n the rence of leaf and stem are proved to 
2 3 The leaf indeed arises immediately below 
e point z vegetation, | before the ent of the 
formation poin 
ut re like Sepang nee hairs often arise, as in 
Pol 3 . asplenioides, P ia, Aneura, 
Pilularia stem originates in the interio or of the 
cellular tissue on the mother axis, when a porary: 
in all other cases on the surfac 
efore the shoot has arrived at its full e, 
The 8 bP Aae rary geret of cells are not 
far as the many different Teng of 
perfect organs would lead os to su F 
ts instance, the rule of the multiplication of ate in 
= stem of Selaginella, Aneura, and Metzgeria is 
ssentially the same. 5 3 of cells in 
many leaves agrees with t f the elaters of Mar- 
c. Spe Steel, stems of all em — 
s of the embryo of 
— tion of one apical cell thr 
og 
< 
8 
* 
ê 
same series of phenomena. In Ferns, however, Equiseta, 
s, and Club Mosses, a differe 
The spore i i 
nt — exists, 
which 
is sometimes very small, and confined to i a4 apex or 
even 
y dm —— 
alternate walls, — to 3 
my investigations confirm one of Nigeli’s dicts; ie 
extension of that — 3 ver, to Phenogams 
general, — consider as entirely incorrect. In — a few 
to a foliaceous lamina, like that of some Livermarta, as 
„ ich 
calls to stages of the —— ot Mosses 
just, when t the leaves appear, as in Equiseta, pene | in 
resemb 
z any very close lance. On the 
— sion in = one — i or on 
the surface in Ne 0 are 3 as in 
the former group; but io thie. cane it is not. simply 
he organ of — which is the im — te end 
of impregnation ; nor yet is it the formation of a or 
in Pheenogams; but of at, itself, 
varying forms, which is inte ultimately by a 
formation of certain tissue, to what takes place 
in the theca of a Moss or Junge give birth 
as before to reproductive spores. It is evident that th 
ma aa e tA 
object in view is far more similar in this division of 
5 ee ja how which is e D 
n di 
pag sages 
ordance in r 
1 
rs, ineludi 
ur author insti- 
and ee ie embryo- 
cells, which there i 
mostly of Monocotyledons, could I con 
self of — a growth of the end of the stem. 
S; for 
great 1mpo 
we have extended our remarks. far 
yond. o its 
— . — with stating that it is a work which is 
ble to every student who wi take so} 
thing more tha lance, know merely 
he name ion. 
e desired 5 point o 
lates are everything 
clearness, and the — which acco 
— full and precise; the ome drawback » —.— 
easy study being an unnec usion in the num- 
act | bering of the figures, arising from a — of System in 
a 
amongst 30 or 40 i par for the next in . 
is tedio ous and ve 
FLORICULTURE. 
Rosks FoR Emme IN A Cu UT State, 1N JUNE 
on Jury. (Contin rom 
—— — 
— 
— — tandard—Riv. — e e Lacéped 
Silvery pale blush, deen Pa svery Bl — 5 
Foster. General J lish red, a large 
iene fine pur ple 
“Francis purplis ish crimson, 
fine 
—Rivers. Gene 
— . 1 . These thriv be 
gonia are s so is e corpuseula, where no | very s ly*pruned, merely thi 3 
8 the channel. The most striking hint ins 3 bloom, ng slightly shortening the 
nce is that the corpuscles. of Conifers are filled that are W. D 
hac pigment gray groups of colle whereas there is | Charles Duval: Rose, very large „superb 
A single cell at the base of e embryo-sae of the Francis; deep p utiful, large and full Paul; 
archegonium, or —— filing its eavity. This ray bright rose, a large and fine flower, justly estee 
ence; eneo, however, in measure vanishes w. Rivers. Comte Boubert: Deep 
Considered that the FFF is. $ 
Taryo is that which is pressed to the the base of the cor- 
the others doubtless aff sustenance to the 
— he eg tar hin of the body, 
into a bundle of 
after impregnation i br 
ot many eae a ec ogee aiat 
Masten tet other portions of the vegetable | — 
sno Amy of Cycada matters 
the suspensor ses hears 
— Oe mmo which 
right and left; so far E. G. Henderson, on 
r | 12° of frost, an 
e stem. 
e ortance and interest 
þe- | fr 
tent ourselves, i in| 
indi 
h a . 
Hi tie of doors; W lsat, ye its 
de “e ee —＋ should be rather m 
pruned— —Madame Audiot: Cre * 
blus ics . ale flesh, Goes jo ar 
andfall— Paul. Thisclassot Rosesisavaluablea popular 
one—Paul ; the se. or of this e is amor to that 
i Damask : — Ville de Bruxelles: 
margin—Bircham ; light rose, 
n blush, la ge re full— Paul. Madame e Hardy : 
Pare ‘white. Pele r; white, beautiful, ue and full 
Paul. Madame Zoutman : : Cream ite—a most 
Bircham. 
splendid Rose — The sheets and leaves 
of Damask Roses are of a very light green, on account 
and | of bas 1 present a striking eontrast when intro- 
duce ong other Roses ; otherwise they may readily 
be distinguished by thei sh. = mata e and 
coriaceous leaves; the Dem k Rose 
hardy, and should have a a place ce in 
n every « y collection 
0 
classifieations of 
' ae from the autumnal 
divisions will be given in our next. J. E. 
1 OF THE CINERARIA. 
ed some time 8 
ack in your Paper an all 
I observ 
3 
have ever run the ris 
j: But thi 
that a plant I 
d yet in June, 1851, — -a two stems 
120 full — blossoms. Paya 
r, and alt my stogk aas 
= stiff, yet I never saw — 
0 hey were, 
ould survive our ordinary winters 
ts danger would not be 
the cold of winte „ but f m the refreezing of half- 
melted snows in — spring. * 
f 
Tolirs: J Ho Rain 2 not harm them in their present state 
80 muah as frost. J. E 
Pinks: J H. Although Fern s so generally recommended, we 
aaa never seen it in use ; one of ne 8 5 en ke 
have the bed well raised above th e alleys: 
and even then so rounded that water may, ready p 555 i 
We have seldom seen Pink beds thoroughly well K ; 
Miscellaneous. 
On the Green Colouring Matter of 1 At 12 
Paris Academy o . 7 W 
sented a communication from il, conte 
ches on this subject, Wk a pa. aai 
with 
of the b of animals, “The matter 
which may be extracted from most cong a 3 matier 
alcohol o: er, has been considered 0 ie 
9 but little homogeneous in i position; it 
is called chlorophyle, or the green resin of plants. M. 
Verde il 0 that he has proved that this green resin 
is a, mixtur a colourless, fatty substance, aba Wis of 
eee e a colouring principle, eR par Pa) 
greatest analogies with the red co of 
the blood, which, by th 
f 
e Way, i 5 N 
p The 
