Senate ant a e 
Fe ee eee 
—_———-- 
- ‘any 
consisting cr A kec Pt 3 2d, an in id ein ite 
: maies 
eventually ease i these, and giving 
ARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE, 
718 THE G 
a naturalist, M, Dayan, , proposed many years ago | difference, mh cannot be detected by the eye, but 
term the middle of the 18th ce autury, “Vé épogue des | becomes at once obvious in the be 
ao rons,” fy that the importance o g after a certain period of their gro & A 
which were t first brought ‘to light by the study of | from this period, the pseudovum spontaneously 
the phrase ‘‘epoch of| passes into the m of an kant becoming 
Plant, lice,” as applied to this period, far less mhimsiaally larger and larger as it does so; but the rabid 
saperaionele than it might at first sight se pe be | simply enlarges, accumulates nutritive matter, 
bri teh of then make of life, of quires its onter investments, „and then falls eN a 
Afte ef ske 
janis — or Aphides, as the 
of the structure. of their pr pan — and su 
mouths, and of their. rela’ tion to 
unless 
king |o 
hnically termed | state of apparent rest, from w 
iT of 
what are called bi rought to bear upon it. 
the influence the spermatozoon 
The 
That the vast pen 
cia, Transactions of Naturalis 
u Kant I. Cau, plaser Fei 
unt of the proceedings of thy acelin iè Gid 
e | ciation i In the f aoe of an ps a aiai ial 
tev. W. S. Symonds, President. a ne 
e bcs nas is chiefly occupied by scolgieg Sate 
1S howe: 
as the tallow ing extracts show. © “oh ia, 
“ bligh ts,” 
hos drawn the attention of natur oe to these insects k reveal 
ere fully detailed. It was between the years 1740 no 
oe 750, in fact, that Bonnet 
more wonderful than that primarily pe tissu 
nal sign is 
e of 
from that of “the 
itself in the young state by no 
tions of the illustrious Réaumur, , isolated an Aphis i im- ~ 
mediately after ae rps and pia to demonstra ation 
that not only w eapable of spontaneously brin 
forth area living young, but that. these and “thes of a 
descendants, to the ninth generation, preserved a 
similar ran Hi der 
Qb. 
Ths 
esulto as 
s borne Yisa h, 
onne! 
m i been its 
smie satiny to their “accuracy, but i wren 
cna food, re xere is practically no wy to thís powe r of | similar 
asexual multiplication, or, as it 
termed, eee r —_ 
Aphis Dianthi and Aphis ee for th 
ee un the 
he vi agamoge 
to th 
r yet 
ere is a | lowest 
ging | were ‘ong Supp osed we be isolate e but -n 
lik 
nown, 
ean we 
bai ee bred the viv? vegetable worlds, 
p is 
pho: osis; 
nomena which have just pap — 
4 
Lae some even more Rabe rere are now 
the an the Sea cited the won 
ingt th Bò 
e 
which have never -ye been 
nevertheless, for the last 20 years, has i pdn uced | 
nnual crop s fontit seeds in Kew Gar Not 
d| some pape of i wee z $ ANo 
ru 
seen, an nd | 
nula latifolia (Giant m lower), 
the habitat gl hig 
a i oh a 
f a cen! o.. Mr, T, 
as however forianaie enough to 
Ham Hill Cottage, i at Powidy a 
“ Narcissus bi 
This Sis v ery ul Apne 
b? a field in the par rrow,’ ra 
ia 
umerous ¢ases of 
to that ed ibited by Aphis in the animalan 
f the Malvern hainin in TA i o 
ey Po a or Griend a 
ne 
nesis is fou 
mmonest phenomena of life. 
nied by en cere vgra met: 
animal a 
ife, in 
accompan 
and arg: a 
roads, * 4 nine or rea 
sie uds, 
ake. As, und Lit 
— a in about a fort Serie and 
phis is known to be capable of producing a hecome 
hundred young, the mivecraet of the progeny which may 
aie. — even from a single Ap m ane the 
six warm a of rag 
lne 
pois Pe remar ‘kable ; 
ideig 
© anotlier, wh ef 
oy fam po 
and Ba independently, we have 
Why so e bud e form and 
some e remain pA and some 
Such phænomena are 
of pleet noe science; 
ners, 
je | retention unchanged of some part of the primitive | 
» this pospe ae he 
ertheless, an n expida tion ot | 
® Aphis and i ses has been | 
to inde 
iy 
approach of co 
m-m: 
ay |s seat ofa peculiar fore; 
gani 
objections to this hy 
hs | direct y xarianao Lae the results of obra 5 ie the | 
even 
e hypathes 
penden t, ‘two 
nint 
and| “Gagea 
but if we look closely into the matter, | i 
nd to pass by insensible gradations | was 
amor- | antic: 
e the very 
attains its adult Pan by ‘he ‘development bok k 
ds: When these buds t 
RA wnithogalum MS. 
ehem. PA im gy in oe a at 
mn by the late Rey. John e po l pa 
tain Anemone, 
mda a 
“ Anemone Appenina. Blue M 
dia. specimen af this, Pet sec, a 
Haa near Upton-on: a a laced in 
1855, eB = ‘orwarded to 
above, but Mes ae must have fro 
some g arden, vend at no other g 
«Lat lue Marsh Vetehli 
pare Lea taeda 
vern district, flourish 
still m 
the western side of Longdon 3 Menke under fa 
of my friend the Rev. W. Thackwell, Niger 
wh 
© 
a thyrus 
one. of the 
our Mal 
P ne 
rarest and most 
et at 
e true, it does not help us 
under- 
the Phenom, With reo tothe former ormer poin! 
Watson has ee i 
iis. C Cybele, Britannica,’ though confirmed 
tee 
i: | best botan ists of Worcestershire as a true native of 
both ete obeervations are erroneous, for i in neither. of | 
latter, -with a single doubtful aus apenas 
Wingless e me ag females the 
then, like the males, 
rna 
of s a At the sam 
rere: hn and give rise to vivip 
ih run through the 
same 
‘Rien 
rte imes jes wingloss s AREN as-it i 
e rise to you 
“ Centaurea nba Yellow Star Thistle An 
+| interesting addition to the Malvern flora, made three 
the danghter of oar esteemed 
s an 7 re 
d to be, in that mp which is the | 
But b 
nna on Taring qui 
a deepest ed g 
aci anda 8, in the | 
vice- -preside ent. 
Great Malvern, e- manent 
cannot be guaranteed, 
ercus paiete ee ar, variegata, “White-leaed 
Onk. n Oak Ms 3 leaves variegated and blotched 
hite, goia a- arenie Tae in er 
Park, ant disp ays this tae 
every y whic deserves ‘notice in connection wi 
g 
rmal as. amd 
ral, Cells _ = ange than those of 
and fe: 
bat ey with 
pro- 
all eee = upon a 
marge e 
three o ovarium of the 
as Von Si ‘Sit was he first to hei in th ering fom ie of | V. P. 
what a: rmed the leterial glands and t 
=| rom the p moe 
one’s — ney: kaaa no 
| à nascent wart should tur 
he it is 
h, their laws being undetermined, are merely verbal 
ENTOMOLOGIOAL: August 2, 
s ip, the ) chair; 
oon is, a 
v aney of the 
wi mre btless had its 
ex thogh. tbe Oa oa 
mitive ger underlie ‘the e epidermis 
one feels any mt lest | 
n out to be an heir, | 
Fis g 
Bita eorf ry beak t Tedstone, 
of Malvern 
been cu e 
> clot: to pam that the Oak with Mistletoe 
exists near the middle lodge in Eastnor 
“ Epipogium aphyllum: Tentes Boca 7 
jn 1854 It may 
t 
limits, by Mrs. A. Smith, in estern: woods BF 
“ forces” 
- Annals of Natural History, 
ee 
Mr. rn 
| io 
h 
one by a A ato the 
there nn pemel become de. | _ 
ides. has 
can e process 
gommation on, as it Saya silave't in thev 
in the lower forms of 
@3 
ze 
gs 
the 
= the I ist of “July. The lary; 
state by Mr. Bou 
nter exhibited tw 
m Folkstone. 
te | specimens of Camptogramma fluyiata and gemmata, 
A 
Esq 
2 pee ar 
we that the omg 
is also, to all intents s and par 
es 
psendovarium a imis i 
: r Histolo- 
A Hm lt ea e two; but a 
physio logical deseript: 
[tión to the 
the lags ofthe 
r. Westwood 
vantage to Le Juublaghema collections if 
onlo 
iscovery of a Strepsi- 
t the Tarrin meeting Mr. E- 
specimens of the hard-gall nuts ——— 
k Dear I traced it to the banks of the Avon | 
arva had 
wo rare motis $ Spilodes pala pn been yet 
conld he wh. that i was then known i 
called atten- | H 
discov. 
ne atnoansing of an ant in Ceylon, of which 
Westwood exhibited drawings, -i ond amd abe that 
= research. 
sad 5 
'arrington 
iama 
yi 
merset, para in 1855 Mr. Lees. 
Se apt 
i 
inquired ph ie 
question, 
i 
Se 
R 
: re 
$ 
he wi, 
Es 
i 
