50 SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
the young ovule. If the buds ure ovules are homologous structures 
they must have the same mode of origin, and will develope either rae 
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derived from two sources—one from a oi da sent a Sir William Hooker 
more than forty years ago, and which he had procured from Mr. M‘Koy 
of Liege; the other from plants sent from Rio Janeiro by Dr, Gunning. 
There is an apparent difference in the characters of the plants from 
the stamens are long coe the sai is short ; while j in others the style 
is long, projecting much ond the corolla, while the stamens are 
short. It would appear that pane e fertilisation may be effected 
by applying the pollen from the long stamens to the stigma of the long 
styles. The partial fruiting which took place in the heads of flowers 
in the Hookerian plants may have depended on the ma that there 
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althou. en pollen was applied from one flower to sheer fertilisa- 
' stion was efiested still it was by no means fully successful, on 
e flowers in the head producing fruit e flowers are 
aoeck at tal with a delicate odour—J. H. Batyour, in Proc. Roy. 
. Edinburgh. : 
“‘Tyzoses”” (vol, x., p. 377).—The origin of the word Ziyloses is 
not far to seek. It should, cpa be written 7) 
hae mean any swelling or rgement, and riawas ‘a making or be- 
ming swollen or protruded.” ae enlarged and protruded ea 
em to by Professor Dyer and Dr. McNab cannot with any p 
priety be called Zyloses, aug epic) is a very good word to ex- 
press their abnormal conditi With regard to the 
origin “ thyllen.” It. may have been manufactured from rian, but 
the resemblance is somewhat remote. ‘‘ Tiille” 
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e following is an extract from a nate which I pomver 
to-day from one of my pupils, which may explain the te 
