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insisted on in dealing only with vegetative organs 
v 
is specially 
required here, for I have discovered, I believe, the fruiting fronds 
ith th 
of one species of this group of plants. With h specimens 
f Slemmatopteris insignis, Co well as with those found on the 
Continent, the fronds of Pecopteris arborescens are always ted. 
tors say to the practice of placing in close proximity plants that are 
beyond question nearly related to each other in all esseutial characters, 
though some have caudicer while others possess rhizomes, yet these two 
forms of stems are more widely separate from each other than the 
extinct paleozoic'group is from the recent forms.— Prof. James Hall, Note 
on the occurrence of erect bases or trunks of Psaronius on the Devonian 
| of New (S AU Mis 
Suction D. BroLoey.—August 16/5.—A. W. Hayne, M.A., “The 
Botany of Moab." [We hope to publish this paper 2% extenso.|—M. 
ogeridge, “On a remarkable Elm in Kensington Gardens. By 
The bark is gone and the surface of the wood decayed. In i he latter fre ni 
the damage extends to the ground; and immediately above it at 8 pa tp 
the base two large roots, now grown into one, descend from the bole o 
la the circumference of the whole bundle being 2 ft. 3 in., d - f 
the largest of these roots 8 in. ‘They are not attached to the tree during 
. passing through the open air for that distance. The :a 
speaking, inereasing in size, touched its — and 2 — vem 
the gr i » product of decay in the : 
ground sent roots into the p t for want of any better 
August 19/4.—W. B. Hemsley, “ Summary Analysis of the rn r3 
Sussex. This it is our intention to print ™ extenso. | rot. 
Lawson in answer to a speaker who had inquired the — rl 
pose of these investigations into indigenous plants, aud iei : are 
. lamented the want of adequate knowledge bow to keep iem m tne 
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