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probability no person has hunted for it by the Tarf of late years, but 
surely it is desirable to do so; and may we not look for this work 
from some Edinburgh botanist ?—C. C. Basrneron. 
name this for Cicendia filiformis—damp and waste ground near the 
anns Bay.—T. Arun. 
time I think that it will succeed best on well-drained slopes on which 
there is a good coating of vegetable soil and dense natural shade. 
Bups or Maraxts.—Professor Dickie, in his note on the buds'« 
developed on the leaves of Malaxis read at the Linnean Society and 
noticed in your last number, states ‘that a close resemblance is to be 
traced between these buds and the ovules of some of our native 
body corresponding with the axis and the cellular open-mouthed sac 
fat g 
ceeds the epidermis is pushed up, forming the external cells, while the 
original cell from under the epidermis forms the central row of cells of 
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