'30 - BOTANICAL NEWS. 
in the Archives de Botanique, vol 1., t. 6, fig. OF., a very Paty? 
presentation is given of the you frond, showin g the seed vessel, the 
frond, the sprouting radical, afd the lid of the seed attached, as in 
the drawing I have made from an actual specimen. The blunt end of 
the radical is here well shown. The seeds appear to germinate 
equally well on the surface of the ea or on the damp sides of the 
vesselin which the specimens contained, and probably a Dee 
have not been noticed. I svi bro ught the eh of this plant 
so fully before the Society, because as far as Iam a are, no details 
of its anatomy can be found in any English botanical work, and I wish 
to place on record the facts here stated.” 
Botanical News. 
ARTICLES In JovRNALs. 
1872.)—M. Com, ‘* Monograph of Saprolegnio, pa art i, Sexual Re- 
production” (Pl. 1—7).—E. de Glinka Janczenski, “ Morphological 
Researches on Ascobolus Surfuraceus, Pers”? (Pl. 8).—MM. Tulasne, 
“ New Observations on the Zemellini and their Allies » (PL. 9—12),*— 
Ph. van Tieghem, ‘ Anatomical Disseevainns on the Cotyledon of 
td 
(Nos. 5 and 6—September, 1872.)—G. de Saporta, ‘‘ Researches 
in ee Vegetation of the South-east of deg 3 in the Tertia “i Pagitee . 
(Pl. 15, 16)—Triana and J. E. Planon, “ Pro dromus Flo 
Sebaatetiong ”  (Stmarubee, Zivoohytier: Malatoed: bieduicon, 
Olacinee.) 
Novemser, 1872. 
Grevillea.—M. J. Ber erkeley, “N oat of N. 
ritish 
Science Gossip.—R. Garner, “ A Curiou 3 British Plan ” (figs. 1 
175). A supposed hybrid between Vaccinium Uyrtillus (time o 
flowering, flower, fruit) and V. Vitis Idea (stem and leaves) ; pollen 
shrunken, few perfect seeds 8. 
American Naturalist.—J. Orton, ‘* Plants of ne Valley of Quito.”— 
R. Ridgway, ‘Notes on the Vegetation of the Lower Wabash Valley.” 
—E. D. “The Geological Age of the Coal of Wyoming.” —N. 
a eons “* Effect of Ex ary Seasons in the Distribution of 
nim 
is memoir was published in English, without the figures, in Journ. 
Linn, Soc. xiii., 31-42 
5 i 
See also Journ. Be Ix., p. 123. 
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