THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE, 



n Himalayan Rhododendrons 



rieties of Epacris, a large specimen of Mn 



covered wit i ; : iped, tubular 



blossoms, Aphelandra cristata, a good spe 



the now pretty well known 

 Abronia umbellate, various Chrysanthemums, and one 



'ductive Science. By Dr. jTm. SchleS."* Trans- 

 lated by E. Lankester, M.D. 8vo. Longmans ; 



English 



mand could make any man really unhappy. * My dear 



a man to call him Holoferm , 



claimed to Mrs. Carter, « who is the worse for being 

 talked of uncharitably V" (Macaulay.) 

 It is much to be regretted that a man of such un- 



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consideration, employing towards them an arrogant tone, 

 which, we must be permitted to say, that he is as far from 

 being entitled to use as they are from dacei 



.especially vegetable anatomy, 



ought to have suddenly sprung up like another Pallas, 



. its parts ; he cannot have forgotten how 



but a very few years since the progress of developmen 



these things so well as he d 



tries. No doubt 



-,\ 



11 the great Fucus bank of Corvo and Flores v 

 might yet find, floating about, plants 

 had been cut into strips by the bark of Columbus ; ax 



■egr 



Txa drift we mi 

 ! id been trans 



hich tii -. ;'i,.mv, from Scandi 



Jcks we may find frequently examples of Lichens 

 hich, from a knowledge of their slow growth, we 

 right regard as at least a thousand years old. The 

 Fungi, on 



is development, 

 speaking of ■ << 



it worth while t 



decided against Prof. E 



iw of de- 

 dopment, concerning the history of which law we are 



The rage fur introducing new words into science Ls 





wever, unquestionably the simplest me.u 





i wiic'i - 



furious enough to find Prof. 

 Schleiden himself "standing in the pillory he proposes for 

 others ; for what is the word " seed-bud," which he con- 

 tinually substitutes for ovule, but a new : 



word ovule, a well understood term, the: 

 the small ovum in whid 

 hatched the plant. To call it a bud is not even a 

 tenable hypothesis ; for it has only one of the attributes 

 of a bud, namely, the intrinsic power of further de- 



"ntstlie; iculir.r structure of : bu ! 

 property of muiti;-.Uing the in- 

 dividual in all its similitudes. The Professor remarks 

 at p. ;;.:.'), about " perianth," and " accessory corolla,' 

 are other sins which would consign him to that bo- 

 ! | !!. r\ .vh e'i he charitably recommends as th< 



This dogmatism is the vice of the author, as we hav( 



which Dr. Lankester, with all his skill and knowledge o 



ae of the best books in moden 



science. As examples of dogmatism, we take thi 



flower, as Link says (Ei. Phil. But. ed. 2, p. 217), bu 



alu »ys a prol i gati r of th w 



aermen proceeding out from it. The investigation o 



The want of accura< 



>getlier ; no other organ whatever appears among 

 lem." P. 375. _ r 



maintained to be such. F raraateiy 



wily destroyed, especially 

 through decomposition, than other plant-. 

 can hardly say that they die a natural death. Amongst 

 high trees we often find the so- called • 

 : ■ 



8 Pore-fruit s (sporocarpia) belonged could not be less 

 than from 10 to 20 years old, the «>lid P°*!tP ™ 







i subject 



■rest." Among the observations on vegetable food wo 

 «The absorption of fluid matters occurs probably 

 HKtly.ifnot., ,ajs in conr Z"?*™™"???^ 







.'•eadily than aatwfrw «bj«tea to 

 the analogy which 



•rounding air." V. 491-5. 



* When," sajs Prof. Schleiden, * w* 



