Argic 13, 1885.) 
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deposit the — in this case, on the style, from 
the bees e it and apply it to the stigmas 
of other — 3 Mr. Hamilton 8 
that, if the flowers should not be at all visited, they 
are very likely to be sere ie ie: i the pollen 
which dropped on the brushes.” The nearest approxi- 
mation to the cup or rn 3 “British plants 
is probably the spoon-like extremity of the ake N 
Polygala, the edges of which are gripped by th 
— fioger-like a which empty their ates 
through terminal to the spoon. z. flower 
or generally self-fertilised 
2 Hamilton next describes the fertilisation of 
ae tomentosum. The flower somewha' 
resem asmine with a long tube. The petals 
are ai ene aeaii, so there ia 20 o landing-place 
can then be i 
well, 
for an t. The anthers, when mature, are held 
stigmas at that 
together, and hang down be 
have shed their mist they retire downwards, the 
tigmas now mature, rise up and occupy their me 
This transference of positions is 0 at all uncomm 
done or w Hone neysu 
The last flower eee, is that of eme or 
Seylidinm, grame bly sensitive co or 
gynostemium is Aer by the adherence fi ne. atyle 
and filaments, so that the anthers are in contact 
with and at first conceal the miniature stigmas. An 
insect alighting to suck the honey touches the sen- 
sitive point at — base of = style, which causes it 
to fly over (having been previously bent down on the 
opposite side), — if the sabes be of zufficient size, 
the column comes down upon it like a hammer, and, 
gmas 
their hairy eee 2 up the pollen and the flower 
is cross - fertilised. George Henslow. 
SHORTIA r n 
x the bo tanist for whom it w 
kate is not k 
s as yet een, except by a 
single botanist of a former generation (Michaux), in 
d recess of the Black res tain 4 
Gray. He wrote 
men known was a d 8 nk in fruit woe De: in 
herbarium of Mich After man 
bead half a centary—Giray 155 the happiness to see 
bis prediction verifled. ant was found and 
ascertained to be to the ra i 1 to 2 
botanist as was iiki whilst to 
flowe 
pitted t jipa at once appealed, Its een 
ith t 
inte 
reat 
VEIY sue. eee 
wý de 1 o those who concern themselves with the 
history of the globe and its pong aid and with the 
pares why plants are where they are and whence 
hey came, * history of the re- 1 of the 
aaah, and of its introduction into cultivation, is 
given with che itiestration, fig. 73, in vol. v., for 1859. 
What a fine plant it becomes wid well cultivated. 
was exemplified by the specim-n shown at one o 
the recent meetings of the Royal Horticultural 
the garden of Lady Bowman, near 
pot, 
found from experi 
this plant is jsa fibrous * mixed with si ver- 
sand, zone broken to the , of Hazel-⸗ 
buts, — A 2 8 a hen 46 neces- 
sary, and geyr coolness. The best manari is 
north-east, in partial shade during the 
peret bli perfectly bardy, or for ae in 
or pans in cool houses; in the latter case, the 
plants should be placed in shady positions in the 
open air in 21 summer. A 
wynds, Dorking, under these conditions, 
one about seventy fully-formed flowers during 
Fe 3 in u This is probably cad 
men jet seen in this country. 
bent e appear in April on plants out- of- 
door 
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Studio, 
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which is by Mr, C. F. Townsend, is accompanied by 
a number of examples, * are more str iking La 
whole resms of written ealogy- psec 7 
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