18 THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [Jawvany 24, 1863, | 
The author observed, that having been engaged for | number of seeds and seedlings leads him to consider | 
some time in the study of the Loranthacez, chiefly | the view of Gertner and Treviranus as correct, the | fera) ; 2, on earwigs, cockroaches, crickets, grasshoppers, 
with reference to certain analogies w resent | greater part of the cotyledon remaining cons | loensts, and tbe like (Orthoptera) ; 3, on bugs, barvest. 
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with Gnetaceæ, he was desirous of submitting some of | within the seed, and the “ first leaf " being a subsequent | flies, aphides, thrips, &c. (Hemiptera); 4, on butterflies 
1 La 2a с. уз: rue f in the seed i a | bees, wasps, horne 
the notes which h p of which there is no trace and moths (Lepidop ега); 5, о b à 
who might be inclined to work out the subject in f itself. ТЬе primary radicle soon disappears, and a | sawflies, gell-flies (Hymenoptera) &c. ; and 6, оп gnats, 
further detail With respect to the acknowledged | number of adventitious root fibrils spring from the | flies, mosquitoes, and their relations (Diptera). 
relationship subsisting between the L acea and | base of the tuber.——3. “On the Tecophilacec, а sub- These most interesting and important subjects haye 
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Santalaceæ, a question upon which he did not |order of Irideæ,” by Е. Leybold; communicated by Sir | never been so 
intimated | W. J. Hooker. This paper consisted of a brief diag- | Spence. Dr. Harris has per ectly understood how to 
ts of a few | render practical matter strictly scientific, and science 
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that his opinion strongly inclined to Њеіг | повів of the proposed group, which con 
mion as subdivisions of one order. Indeed he|Chilian rhizomatous herbs, and descriptions of tw 
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both Olacinez and Sentalacez should be united with | of Trewia nudiflora,” by E. de Crespigny ; communi- | СИАРЕВ, tbe curse of the light lands of all Europe. 
Loranthacez. As, however, in any arrangement based | cated by D. Hanbury, Esq. The author observed that| “The habits and transformations of the commo 
ү Candoll 1 i ld be impossible to | Dr. Lindley had in the 34 ed. of Vegetable Kingd kehafer of Europe һауе Ъ fully observed, an 
arrange these groups consecutively—one being Thala | remarked thus; “ Міз]ей by imperfect information, I | will serve to emer Hen of 
n: the third Mono- | formerly pror 1 a group called Trewiacee, but it } this family, which, as as the 
i been shown by Klotzsch that Trewia is really a tetra- | be nearly the per. This insect devours the leaves « 
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BEL cannot, he this to as i Patio M. de G pig у} 1 1 I very sbort, each individual living only about а weel 
Loranthacese, as distinct from aces, any more |a doubt аз to the propriety of retaining Macaranga in і the speci tirely disappearing in t 
than Henslovia; and Mr. Mierss proposal to separate | the Spurgeworts on account of its erect ovule and month, After the sexes have paired, the males perish, 
from Loranthus. Myzodendron, КЕ and some|oblique embryo; and the object of the present com- | and the females enter {һе earth to the depth of aix 
allied genera, erecting them into a distinct order|munication, which was aecompanied by а careful | inches or more, making their way by means of the 
"Yiscacem, was stated to rest chiefly on an incorrect wing, was to show that the ovules in Trewia аге | * teeth which arm the forelegs; bere they 
d f the strueture of the o and fruit in these | also erect: they are attached by small funiculi to the according to 
y depo their egg» nting, some 
lants. “Since the recent researches of Hofmeister | base of the cells, and the frui is a bilocular drupe, | writers, to nearly one nndred, or, as others assert, to 
to the embryogeny of Loranthus, Viscum, and |“ поё tetracoccous" If it be not deemed expedient to | two bundred from each female, which are abandoned 
Lepidoceras, no d ing erect ascen to y 
bt can remain but that these are | se апда, Trewia ers by the parent, who genera ds again to the 
all characterised Mt single erect ovule, most | ovules from fup iaces, М. de Crespigny sug- | surface, and perishes in a short tim 
entirely adnate with the wall of the ovary. My own | gests the propriety of their being “ grup| “Е e eggs in the space of 14 — 
this view. ts | by themsel attached to the order as appen days, hitish grubs, each provided with six legs - 
referred by К. to Тареіа with pendulous ovules| dices." The paper was by drawings he head, and a mouth furnished with Г 
are species of Henslovia, аз stated by Blume. Mr.|of Briedelia and Falconera, as “very fair examples in а state of rest these ] 
Miers describes the embryo of two-celled Euphorbials with suspended ovules,” | selves in the shape of а crescent. They subsist on the 
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icula ^ $-celled fruits occur. g th egetable subst on some occasions 
* con: a subcoriaceous putamen? Loranthus is|7. “On the development of Chlóeon (Ephemera)|the most deplorable kind, so as totally to disappoint the 
dimidiatum,” by J. Lubbock, Esq.—— 8. “On the | best founded i 
r p species of Leostraca;” and 9. the | summer they live under the thin coat of vegetable T 
species which I have examined. In L. europæus, too, | species of Strombidæ, Trichotropidæ, Сургеійг, &с., mould near the surface, but as winter approaches Ж 
it is t. I cannot doubt therefore that Mr. Miers | found in Japan: ” both by A. Adams, Esq.——10,| descend below the reach of frost, and remain эй 
has had an old or decayed fruit for ion, in | “ Catalogu the Hymenoptera collected by Мг. | antil the succeeding spring, at which time 3 
th yelled up from the enclosed | Wallace in the islands of Mysol, Ceram, &с," by F. their skins, and reascend to the surface 
Then follows some general i unicated the close of their third summer (or, as some say, of 
of under each of the vol: xxiv. of the Society's | fourth or fifth), they cease eating, and 
pe EM RE Tun ing Dr. Hooker's full account of | 2 feet deep into the earth ; Шеге, by itẹ 
llowing :—Nuytsia, in 21 sections, V i plates, was placed on the | side to side, each grub forms an oval. cavity 
Sillas Holethiens, p prm gane which includes the lined by some glutinous substance thrown 
of АП. Cun.; Tupeia, re ea чеч ч 
thobium, RN : Арда Eubrachion, edt off its skin. this state the 1 
molepis, —— 2. “ new species i wing-cases .of the future beetle 
of Aberia," by T. Anderson, M.D. Two thorny bushes А 3200105 of Books. the transparent skin which envelops 
supposed to be the Kei Apple of South Africa, and 4 frin ap fhe met io р Ti jon. Ву | оѓ а yellowish-white colour; and tbus 
provisionally referred Эберт, bei bes бтоув Thaddeus Wm. Harris, M.D. ed by Cbarles|the month of February, when the 
. in the Calcutta Bofanie Garden for some years without| Flint. Large Svo, Boston, Printed for | encloses the body is rent, and three 
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