386 General Notices. 



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Plantce Javanicce rariores, descriptse Iconibusque illustratae, 

 quas in Insula Javae, Annis 1802 — 1818, legit et investigavit 

 Thomas Horsfield, M.D. E siccis Descriptiones et Charac- 

 teres plurimarum elaboravit J. J. Bennett. Observationes 

 Structuram et Affinitates praesertim respicientes passim ad- 

 jecit Robertus Brown. 



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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices. 



Developement of the Bark in Trees. — The distinct developement of the 

 bark consists, sometimes, in the thickening of the cork substance; at others, 

 in the thickening of the cellular envelope. There are, however, many cases in 

 ■which the great increase of the bark substance consists chiefly in the ex- 

 pansion of the layer of liber; and we may cite, for instance, the beech (i^agus 

 sylvatica). In this tree, the bark almost always remains even, and the 

 cellular envelope continues very small, even when the bark has become 

 of considerable thickness. The bark, also, of the plane tree (Platanus occi- 

 dentalis), which is found in this country, must also be specially mentioned. It 

 exhibits the same structure as the bark of the beech ; remaining, however, in 

 this state only from the eighth to the tenth year. About this time, there 

 forms in the layer of liber (that is, only at some places) a delicate layer of 

 tabular cells, which agree exactly with that of the periderma. This new layer 



