Marcu 26, 1887.] 
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sidered as one of disinterested, public utility, we do 
not know what better claims the old Society has. We 
may add that the report of the Pear Congress is also 
completed and in type. These r s do honour to 
, and triking evidence of the 
energetic vitality that still exists among well- 
re in question may be had by 
Fellows on application to the Assistant-Secretary, 
and those who are not Fellows will get their money’s- 
worth, if they are inclined to purchase them. 
INDIAN Figs.—A paper by Dr. GEORGE Kine, of 
Calcutta, on “The Genus Ficus, with ger pec 
а 
ci n March 17, in which it was ca 
that insects play a lep part in the fertilisa- 
tion of certain forms. Dealing with the structural 
st 
urs a set of fl ally named by 
himself “ Tartain i e bat for which he 
adopted Count Ѕогмѕ Lavmacm's term, “ Gall 
(see anii) Chronicle, 
in publication, thoug 
I rches had c enced earl As t 
the question of these gall flowers, Dr. Кіха states 
that the & of an insect can usually be seen 
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through the coats of the ovary. The pupa, when 
perfected, escapes into the cavity of the receptacle 
by cutting its way ман and fully developed 
winged insects are often to be found in considerable 
numbers in the cavity of Ve Fig. The pupa ofthe 
insect must become encysted in the ovary of the gall 
e male on] 
beginning to shed. Thus Dr. Kine holds ‘thas ош 
the interposition of insects the malformed flowers 
doubtless become functionally ит tenes in the 
life his From cu- 
агї of the 
пони divided into three subsidiary sub-groups 
ows 
cus, Linn. 
Group I, аа ет e ... Galeeomorphe. 
Urostigma. 
Sect, ii. p Syncecia. 
Group 11, Unisexual. a. 4 сасе 
Sect, IIT, Rege. 
воан, 
ап rennial plants 
жаш by the authorities of the Royal 
ow, doe or purposes of exchange. A similar 
jas has reached us from the Royal Gardens, Glas- 
vin, Dublin, the Botanic Gardens Е wer tiui 
singer) of which Professor Kawrrz is Director, 
and from that of Montpellier, over vide Professor 
PrawcHoN presides, 
HELIANTHEMUM ALGARVENSE.—The Garden is 
The present species is figure 
ch 12, and is a dwarf shrub, with oblong-acute 
leaves and linear cymes of yellow w flowers "with a 
rimson or purplish eye 
y repays а little attention, We find most of 
па ek border а little raised 
and well exposed to the su 
HookEn's '' ICONES e "The last- 
ssued part contains numerou 
бу taken from m planta: preserved i in the Kew 
herbarium. them is one of Cotyledon visci- 
dus, à cur dara species, with жар of linear leaves, 
and a branching cyme be numerous flesh- 
coloured flowers. E plant Ты in the Royal 
Botanic Gardens 1886. Vitis EE a new 
E from Natal, i by Mr. 
is as unlike a Vine as can well be, as in the 
flowers. It is a замана shrub, with сее, 
oblong pose Bei ДЕ кыне leaves. A yellow 
flowered Hepa e mountains of Central 
China Hepatica pain is "res figured 
ANACTOCHILUS LANSBERGIZ.—A very beau 
tiful foliage plant, with ovate acute leaves, of which 
the central portions ark n with lighter 
an species rece 
hiro by the рес emeret and 
Januar f the Illustration 
Horticole, t. 1. The plant is ram in а pot three- 
TUNBRIDGE WELLS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
. E. T. Loor, who has for the past twenty-eight 
years filled the office of Secretary to the es وا‎ 
d, and is succeeded by M 
Cornwett, Probably, excepting Mr. Jons WILSON, 
Secretary of йа I Floral Féte, this is one of the 
longest official careers in connection with any horti- 
cultural society ofi the present day. 
THE BURRIDGE RELIEF FUND.—Mr. BURRIDGE 
thankfully ыш" the receipt of the follow- 
E ome m Mr. Тно: лугов, Bocking, Brain- 
.; and Mr. G. В, "Us , Seed Grounds, 
a te Bucks, 8з, 
mar 
one-fourth the ordinary scale. It must, ho 
be remembered, that local circumstances sometimes 
modify the rule 
SCHIZOCASIA? REGNIERI.—Under this name 
essrs. LUCIEN and Ropicas describe and 
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about 20 
coloured with purplish аға the blades рођ 2 fee feet 
hastate, —— pinnately lobed; 
lobes narrow, dark green, inal one longest. 
It must be а very striking de plant. 
"REVUE AGRICOLE."—The President of the 
Acclimatisation Society of Mauritius has issued the 
first number of a journal devoted to agriculture 
and horticulture. The journal is established with a 
view to furnish means for meeting the depression in 
the sugar trade. Seeingt 
article only, the conductors of the journ: 
attention to fruit culture, flower farming for perfume, 
Tea culture, and other maken 
" CHAMBRE SYNDICALE” OF GHENT.—At а 
meeting held on VE the 14th inst., кы following 
awards were m 
First-class осн .—То Messrs. Blancquaert & 
Vermeiren, for pem miniata var. Chevalier Heynde- 
rick ; to M ay ae, for ipit miniata var. Mme. 
Void iis 
Messrs. Vervaet & Co., for Cattleya Triana var, 
Popayan. 
The following Commendations were also given :— 
For Merit :—To M. Isidore Denovette, for seedling 
М. B.S 
sum Andersoni; to Mr. James Bray, for Cattleya 
'Trianz ; to i Ed. Delanghe, for seedling hybrid 
Rhododendro 
For owe -—To M. B. Spae, for Clivea Juliani. 
CORNISH EARLY POTATO Crop. mies eet 
nishman 
Lamorna and Penberth (the south-west frontier of 
Mount’s Bay), which was so forward and loo 
promising before the frosts of the last few days, has 
been completely comer зи in several places. The 
leafage was 4 or 5 inches above the ground. Messrs. 
are sorry to add 
applies to many places at_the islands of ед: апа 
to less forward patches in | Gulval, Ludgvan 
'' ROSEN ZEITUNG. digo bà as we ellas France 
has its Journal des Roses 
is the organ of the German Soc 
It is published at Frankfurt бу Ган 
The number before us contains nicus. on the 
mpan coloured plate 
German i pedigr 
details of the results of various crosses, and many 
other matters of interest to rosarians, 
GENETIC AFFINITIES OF THE ALGAE. — The 
familidt terms, green, red, and brown algæ, so appro- 
and — remembered, were rudely weer egw 
his Mo 
— in мга Асе 
he form of suppression 
dege 
ment of the simplest form of vegetative life, 
colourless, blue-green, and pure green cell contents 
were учен hus, Mr. ‘ETT gives three 
t divis , Schi ycetes—forms entirely 
destitute of ‘chlorophyll, and adapted E carry on & 
parasitic existence; 2, Chroococcaces— nicellular 
isms 
organ with h cell contents com watery 
—Ó endochrome diffused ree the proto- 
plasm, without distinct — starch 
ococcacese—characterised 
t or cote шм 
by cells possessing ient starch grains, pure 
ee tential with that of higher plants, and 
in certain sta true cell wall of cellulose. The 
first lead to res Fungi, the second pass through 
i Nostocs, and the third is the 
Of the latter 
third division there are а number of subdivisions, 
the Diatoms being low in the scale, and of remote 
