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Fruit or ViNCA (Journ. Bot. IX., 14, 336, 373.) —In Eng. Bot. t. 
514 the fruit of F: eag is figured, and it is state d to be“ produced 
Uriage, Tsére, Hanbury! The only specimen of V. minor in fruit which 
I have seen is in Herb. Kew. from the last named locality; in the same 
Herb. are fruits of the Ma species V. media, Link et Hoffm., and 7. 
herbacea, W. & K. From Fl. Vect. 306, 307, it would appear that Dr. 
EE had seen fruit of both 7. major and P. minor.—Jamus 
time of the Royal Gardens, to Dor orking, in Surrey, to collect as many 
Species E ces Orchids as I could find in that neighbou rhood . 
he Lathrea I found growing on bet phun ofa dry wood, some plants 
the * Flora of Surre Ep» 169, on Mr. H. C. Watson's authorit ity, that the 
plant ** is ius to E a native or spontaneous inhabitant" in Kew Gardens. 
—Eb. Journ. Bor.] 
cod and rede a Society of ee for 1844-5, and re- 
as ad as the ids id leds, and thus demonstrated the great 
gradual formation of a ayer of peridermal cells through the petiole 
subérification ? Dr. Ledeganck calls it—is described in almost exac dy 
rice puni by both writers, save je Inman speaks more posi- 
tive! i 
mode in which it is ice: effected. here is no doubt about the form- 
ation of an uninterrupted jd of corky tissue through the whole petia: 
Which after the fall of the leaf forms a cicatri ix. The ar niediate cause of 
the fall of the leaf is considered by the author to be ger , which vitalis 
Y causing a greater contraction of the half-dead spongy tissues of the 
Petiole than of the tense cushion, and so ruptures the cells. 
