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367 
th of whom ist prizes were 
The day being bright the 
Paul, to bo 
ir Hyacinths and Tulips 
rather too free ely. 
eous Plants. aerei these rq Boro 
| strate the analogy of this body with the pollen, a as 
h b; 
That author sought to dem 
lt d fac culties of tk 
have m i ‘dos so n eedem 
for ae p the Tallowing $4 rt, which is to 
muc 
the action which the yarious solvents 
and 
He desi nated it = the 
“ be 
1 of flowers is to fe ecu undate the e ov ary.” d 
bl and t — es e work, dedi ready, 
ladaa i if we are n ay: misinfi e time 
been out of the author’s Minds. 
This first instalment of the fifth v 
olume commences 
n 
of the polle 
Dr. 
ory, noticing the 
y owa 
of Balham, and derit a 
rds.—Equal 1, Mr. Williams and Messrs. A. 
2, Mr. Bull; equal 3, Mr. Cross and Mr. Young; 4, Mr. Treen. 
oses.— —These, both cut and in pots, were in excellent 
condition. Among them were charming examples te 
-— frag. A Lord. Valen Senateur Vaisse, and Celine 
. Henderson ; | 
u 
volatile dex od E oil, seg re esinous matter of 
lupuline, and 
The paper was illustra’ 
Museum, exhibited by Professor je cher Bye e 
Higher Cryp Cryptogam 
"iw colour 
New lants.—Among ‘these was the variegated 
Flax vy s Mr. Williams, who | in 
Certifica! 
- "1 is a 
rie experimen ag - nic 
Garden “of P edinturgh with species ri Selaginella; 
which he endeavours 
rodu S. Mie 
uis 
same exhibitor 4 were S pacts of Serres Drummondi, 
cin and pu NN i ii, and other 
ants. Mr. Bull -— a sollction, in — 
reports, w 
—- pr 
Gymnostachyum Verschaffelti, a pat ty red- Richie of th 
leaved n which 
p First-class Certificate was 
awarded, as it proves decidedly different from Eranthe- 
m i i hich it had touti thought to 
r. Li ndle ey, a new continental 
rm was ced  betwe tensii 
S. — <a spy the POT of 
macrospores adi other 
a hybrid | i 
and | t 
uch higher 
ris 
number ; andi if the author has T at all, we think it 
the 
He fel that a macrospores did 
unless the €— had been Beste £ Specimens 
e hybrid form, well as of the parent bae gel 
in a living state, amens Badin ted. ee “ Abstra 
aper SA Bet be B 
Eichler 
of al 
nittir which to the 
eyes of other pteridologiate both in this country and 
on the continent a 
in or 
ems hopeless to expect unanimity of opin 
| therefore without dwelling on sis Arii all r 
—5 
of Fossil Plants found i in the Tertiary Strata in the 
f Fra 
variety wi } 
a Second-class | Certificato. Ge Everestiana, certi- 
ted a year o e from Messrs. 
Clapton, e - oa e Halfordiana, a pretty 
salmon rose-coloured kind „of the aristata set, which 
A Es Me. A ag pa Grass Tree, just received 
Low, of|at 
South-east o ” by Gaston de Saporta; com- 
municated by Prof. “Balfour. * Notice of Plants 
e eg P 
will, we are sure, be grateful to Sir 
W. Hooker for the much he has dl to elucidate the 
si! rh of their st 
pecies, mostly 
Du varieties =e! spring flowering plants setowded at 
mer meeting as being in bloom duri: - the month of | 
Dicen mber, 1863, only 15 are now to be found in flower | 
= 
a fine specime: 
r 5 J 5 
` BOTANICAL or EDINBURGH : March 10.—Prof. Balfour 
in the v E ere donations r the Library and 
e laid on the table. Mr. James William- 
Bon was opi a areh EM The following com- | da 
munications were read :—1. ** Researches on Hybridity 
in Plants,” by M. Ch. Naadi, translated from the 
French, and gue ^ y Mr. Geo. May Lowe. 
e - uation of one read at 
e subjects bo er were—]1. 
TES etuer of hybrids to the ific forms of the 
ucing species, and the cane whic’ 
this return. 2. Exceptions to the law of return 
hybrids to the forms. 
become fixed an 
parent Do certain bey bride 
give rise to new species? 3. NS 
em precis d M it See ey 1 d crosses? 
proper to distin a species?——2. ‘On the 
Chemical and Natu 1 "o of Lupuline" by M. 
Personne; transla by George Lawson, L 
Dr. | Lawson remarked that, consideri ring the great 
Bead 
we might fo age - scientific manufacturi 
yh what RT ea statement pipe 
‘the ch dion Product of the Hop, and of the nature 
and development o f the remarkable organ by whic 
these wever, was far 
are gecre This, how: 
from bein ton e case. "aT have therefore he remar arked, 
“thought that a translation of M. Person i 
A 
determines 
of | bl 
- nthis piens Helleborus ai dimid (abas- 
uay. 
„The are 16 apa plates by Ft giving figures 
w. t 
A Floraof Ulster, and Botanist’s vw to the North of 
Ireland. By G. Dickie, A.M., Professor of 
in the University of f eat s Belfast, 
Aitchison ; London: Reeve & Co. 12mo., pp. 176. 
Br) o picus, and purpurascens, Hepatica 
rildba, pex albida, Petasites nivea, Erica herbacea, 
The district. to which this Guide refers, ead be 
Gent iana acaulis, Primula elatior y VA and vulgaris, 
J 
POET RE E E AAN n ETTI 
Coryl us We a curd Sisyra gra gra im Galanthu 8| 
Fro 
coral sy n added to list, v viz.:— 
N — serit Galati a ih Leucojum 
vern and C making in all 19 species 
- dover at this tmi. Out of the 19, only 9 species 
in full bloom—viz., mcg Een Helleborus | a; 
picus, and 
ness 
t 
nly now that we | 
.D.| the flow: opened on the Ae of February. — 
s sanguineum were 
2; at this ime: it has m com- | 
a gunen its bana, e Narcissus pumilus | 
n 8; it is only now Ls ds 
through fes Pen Tho onium Dens- 
was in user on air ath March ; it is only now breaking | 
app 
the surface same remar mark applies to Pusch- | 
kinia scilloides, Ee was in flower last year on | 
9th March. The Crown Im was wer last | 
on 22d March, the flower — = then 8 feet = 
high ; sour ora aches through the ground at this. 
ate. A ae aire 1 ral € Bowen, xi. 
what the nativ Yes ru call Huana was | 
of the Andes, and ^ said to be 
t imulating plant well k t 
ens, Corylus | Ki 
Galanth 
mark is also poin 
and Cone com- 
indie also tho Sortes ‘portions of Leitrim, 
Sligo, and Mayo, belon ght. The coast 
line is very i bor tig owing b the branches " the 
Atlantic—the Loughs of Strangford, Belfast, Foyle, 
g 
oolite, egie 
rocks. And there are high mountain 
eed in the east, neat moots and west, the highest 
ts bein alion Donard i wn, 27 fee 
“in Don 
respectively ; be Nephin in Mayo, 2646 feet high. 
Thi of outline and soil, and the peculiarl 
mild an oist climate whi s, have their 
meration, com- 
prises 570 dicotyledonous, and 172 viouócoC NO GGS 
plants, and 43 d and vag eM d a ese of 
805 Ta at present known to g other 
es Dr. Dickie notised tha " A the “north € 
I SMS. a t. dagided fall of the upper limit of s 
species “occurs in from the north or sisti esa 
to south-we Thus Euphrasia officinalis, which in 
the north-east of Scotland fin ts upper limit at 
which reine ii Scot 
Pin vulgaris, 
280 0 feet, ya prim 2000 feet 
on  Erigal, and "800 feet on Nephin in Various c other 
ic d belongs to the na tural order d AR 
are recorded. 
causes, 
pace d a favourable grain market, 
of excellent water in the 
devoid of organic matter, 
acturi nt r. But 
me slight 
undantly e ut 
Dr. Richard de Gambleton Daun 
a: " 
© 
Pee antt 
of a plant called at San Paulo, Brasil Perovinba | 
do Campo, which zs bes 
arr medica. Pro 
h specimens in the ee 
be ‘Perolobium err, euin of Vogel, a ars 
elonging o 1e Cwsalpiniew. n has a CENE 
more or v precisely meve according to 
or interest of the plant, a 
perature, and an indication of its rango i in idi parts 
of I reland. It will be found to be 
extent 
Picton "and Belleville, € W, fy especially farther 
wostward ; e best q of H 
if 
beer, 
E Nds a of yellow corpuscles, 
ps lg hich are separated very freely 
g the ripe and dry cones. Those inl] bodies 
successi 
i 
IH HE HB 
uni 
MI 
analysis which yo 
eimi ied the co 
Z 
in 1827 M, Raspail published, | t 
e names of lupulin, į 
-| by the Royal 
ris cademy of Science of Prussia for an 
essay on the mode in whieh the i E silicic 
acid contribute to the a a The 
| prize to be eae eae d ce rere to be in 
conditions of pels edel zii Royal Horticultural 
Society, South. Kensington, collection 
ied plan 
ts, were laid on the table. 
8 of 
of 
— Printed copies of the 
in Belfast 
College, 
TENE has oe left comparatively little 
to be added hereafte: 
. The Botanical Pen for this month has excel. 
, €. g. Reidia 
ro nins adt 
Filicum: being Descri 
Tllustrated with Plates. 
Jackson Hooker, K.H. London: 
Part XVII. 
Of this most valuable aid to the student of Ferns, 
i the first part of the fifth volume, or the 17th part of 
the entire work, has lately S Lap ra enced so 
tions of all known 
pag ae EE 
& Co. 
ici — rn — and Scutellaria 
gure esents Miltonia 
€— s Brazilian ipa her with h foliage and pseudo- 
ling M. spectabilis, with a racemose 
ears — Reidia g 
habited stove Picaphorbia iaceous {shrub, with. Fea 
obliquely oblong leaves, glaucous beneath 
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