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~~ dut the Cherry tree would have | timately into 1 
In the absence of that the Cherry tree would have | timately i one, while on the contrary, a GREEN 
nently pete the public 2 opine fis agi E. perished. If M. Ronnhr has really kepthis Scolytus- takes place occasionally in the 9 of A constriction 
pre he es ent at Adis tha 3 is without their bark he stomosing bran ch, und the two £ anothe i» 
known French forester, has disc o verel A er trees | eaten mad e: in Paris nda Cie Persii HEN ld a pEr. 
t have employed some m a th ret t 
may be deprived of the w sate. bi their bark, LA mus l il be $ ims ool d aa : 
only without ns neing or njury, but e n | that of DUHAMEL. That des ch i — „tho Se dn "exhibiting. however the sa ide) pant T 
with considerable advantage, “ 3 © Properties 
to increase their power of pee Bf This S: by that ingenious physiologist Ne 9r der When Eeey decas spores are sown upon 
eovery is said to have grown out of attem dp. to ascertain in wha t way the bark of trees is stance on whic can conveniently germ 1 any gp: 
extirpate the Scolytus, which seems to be as mis- 2 tored. 8 w that ite g have become ys 
chievous in the Champs Elysé<s, Paris, as in the | preceded b f a matter resembling | get altogether re pde the 8 of a asto 
rks of London, or St. Giles's at Oxfor mucilage 1 ea out from the surface of the frequently adheres to them for hours e: hey 
e have been unable to 2 j^ the re port on so wood; but the gasetik remained whe des he | been immersed, outer membrane o i aa 
important a subject which M. RonERT is said to ex uded matt 5 — mere chr 10 or nasceut | contents protrude, still covered by the inner memb 
have made to 1 o Horticultural Society of P. ti d o determine that. point | in the — 5 yd z NS globule, Elonga 
but we do not hesi ate m that the naked — € ved i in the first diye of ell a ring e bark Sid Ed À or 5 ES this, — are frequently retract 
i t hav g Elm tree, and adapted to glass aud repliced: by new processes. Meanwhile the 
statement, as it has c the before us, must hav a d ith De: ae the | Minating globule elongates and bears at ge. 
been founded on some misapprehension, Not that tube which "he kept fille! 55 wate laze they to delicate flagellifor ste ich unduly ulate win 
N “alluded to were mucilage they great rapidity. The eee — 
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of bark, but because "the rocesses required to keep | would dissolve in the water id h be converted | motions, and from its bes undul 
Uh a are likely to be em- into bark. Up to the 18th e h he | worm. y undulates like a fig, 
remarked no change; but a few days after a kind Other appearances after a time vasi 
t ex 5 ly. 
gom Yd d t eed from the Histoire de|? 3 matter began to appear ere and there, La torals processes of various kinds. are given of, 
l Acad "Ron le de Soiences for the ear 1709 | and bub of air, apparently divad from the | the base of the threads contracts em swells peres 
* eot bse ved a Elm ts A. | longitudinal iae of the wood, began to rise to the threads themselves shrink up, and instead 9 
ere on xi A H ma 00 its 11 the water; "his was sueceeded by ier eld motion cret along, while ther 
: hite gelatinous substance, | flagellitorm processes vanish or are retracted; 
in the spring, although t had ^5 "asked up [ie orn s ss spread rss hierin “and un Í these same bodies resume their original’ 
the beginning of i hes. This o e 1 the d. and ultimately covered Others appear which do not undergo these j 
was repe eated b r the great „ [ovem ene 9 , 3 M the and larger individuals occur, arising from a F 
"WI He c t erigi 22h pee nsformation of the smaller. The ultimate fom 
French physiologist, who dee, severa dad transfo: maller. 
of different Gmenswl and he fou nd dul ‘tha Cami of this recite matter, which is the closet ur <3. Amada: r, NR 
Jetagth of ne Baran they peaa was in propor- | 8a : j D 
tion to their size; so that some of M largest did P. ioht 11 
not die till the fourth year. But, he adds, unless | In 
hi "i fi or at andages, but E e we have at present | moreover that the 4mcba-l ike bod — actuall 
r no intelligence In the mean is ile we N bo Es Faa fall in thar way, though he 4 not pro- 
hi x hindered b [oe to try no wild e ‘tan ments in barking | fess to have observed the process. 
— aber E ante application? ^T d ME mos, Ñn time M. Rosen's report will odii s|. No ow, even allowing all Do Bary’s person lem. 
i d at Pari ablisked, and when we receiv hey shall , it by no means follows that these 
t the animal kingdom, The ¢ 
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is val us n to wide |È = informe q as to Y ence of Sarcodes in vegetables is not a more 
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Cellulose in the eggs of Rhipignathus, and some other 
tural p takes s place at St, Jama Halk o . — animal productions, proves that they are 
5 ay and Friday next. old system of tables. The ultimate movement of the ee 
aving pu Percha tickets of en mé been aban - | germinating threads is no more sure indication oftheir 
e | doned, visitors, who are not Fellows, enter by pa elonging to the animal kingdom than that whichis so 
trees were in fll s - 1 cane Ls ris d : eoo PORE ongst Al sti ety of den 
to be bark tt trunk, as if — dey "d em subjects enu ehiad d in the | their title to a place amongst vegetables. isten 
5 the ee for tan. 3 ter edules tha ve circulated, and a very | of spiral vessels in Z'richia stion 
eps t: n stripped, the ink wit Jost — w | grand display of spring flowers may be anticipated. | completely at rest, and the mode of development of the 
held together by little hoops, (zm Din ci, otio | It — be DO that — be such an sporos m» in some species of Badhamia is almost equally 
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aterial m while thus providing for the gra "d Thou agh w e differ from De Bary as to the conclusions 
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at which he arrives, we do not in the least. wish to 
effect of sun a straw screen was plac pig eatin of the Fellows and their frie detract from the merit of his observations. I. J. B. 
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rather later than its neighbours, and stoned its SOME FUNGI ARE AN: MAL R W. J. HOOKER'S . 
fruit, notwithstanding that it cast a part of its|  Tmznz is a peculiar tribe s gi, ko from = | PRELIMINARY REPORT bed KEW 
leaves and many of its smaller twigs. The next others b their soft, pulpy, or are istence whe: Ke. (Just Published). 
year it appeared to be out of health, but in the young, and the multitude of ‘dusty, Sootlike spores into Ne © ew, W., Decem 
third year, the tree having recovered, the straw which they break up when old. puffball| My Lorp — y that brevity D desirable in 
was taken off, and I found the trunk again covered | indeed s the last-mentioned character; but then - for 1 ATA ——. = Commons, I confine mys 
." Sim re also unite s young it is of a firm consistence, resembling | prag pue ii mA a e ote . — 
i in J als for 1727 ewhat the crumb of bread, — n be handled ood nd 8 m e ho Ga visitors oyo pst ino 
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operation that had been emplo oyed, pieces and of the developm of Algæ an those parasitic ri 
üt bark being left hero and there—a be STORY [corn -— TT especially Which are so detrimental t 185i 
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crops, are of such — es any views which he 1855 » pen 
a Giba Tt is also now reported that so far eee 8 aged» careful 1857 E " 
from RonERT's 0 ions having been : 
ul have — Aal failed. ing uU ate oe M his opinion pes e er e at apy pe pre- g a Bs interesting to obi 
cessf they h OR inating spore: 
We — only to look into any of our wooded | We do not say 5 these 8 E —— t. epe une 82,455 dm 
eountry places where Oak have been barked, | though a friend . 1 repent them, but August . Sm 
to see how Vp it is = = should be long Without success. It is, however, fair to state that; The Avnet months w : 
maintained i in the absence of vs lk covering experiments on the germination a of the spores of Fungi . "November s: . 
of their trunk which is nature, And | Succeed in general far bett mmer than in spring oisi k days was— Monday r 
what purpose does the bark t ata serve? With- r winter. April 2 (Good Er Brida P MET Yi s nOn 5 x 
out going into a 1 description of its manifold „ The Spawn of MU peu sephesis consista oF yellow 10 it 
uses, it is sufficien o point out one. In all our ne ores foin ru ceres m ay direction,, The ges wan. on e 7 " 
rming an irregular net-work. July 
common trees the outside ot f the bark i is in course of | observes that the poa oF which h the en E e H : — the BE — 
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d e na ge S) d hich they spri ey become brown when | of any day was on Augus IG 
wood, and bark in the inside A bark, M hens |t ne, — emi the constant motion | „TE Meine 
the two come — contact all the renovation and which. $ s property substance disco vered in 3 — 2 
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ness. Bark s it always moist; and when Amaba and some other In. | an volle © conan gard 
hedid sty induced. Lhis Cherry tree to form new bark dux i E the se ike —_ ime reet Eime. me iok ie — 4— ri 
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