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5. That there is no evidence of any growth having taken place 
in the fibro-vascular bundles comparable to that observed in sh 
ledons; but that if the stems of Calamites increased in diameter it w 
by additions to the cortica/ tissues, and not to those of the fibro-y barf 
bundles 
' 6. That the pointed ends of the Calamite stem (indicating that the 
embryonic parts did not enlarge) lead to the conclusion that circum- 
ferential growth did not take place, but that the stem, when it attained 
its maximum dia _r close to the base, remained cylindrical. 
SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
ODWINIA GIGAS, Seem.—This wonderful Aroideous plant, brought 
plate of this remarkable object is very faulty, being cone sNioiwea? ei 
memory. T rawing of Mr. Bull’s specimen, o out quart 
the natural size, given in the Gardener's Chronicle for the 18th of 
uary, gives a very fair idea of its appearance. The spadix was quite 
inches long (Dr. Seemann’s ‘‘nine inches” (/.c., p. 818) may ‘have 
been an error) and about one hae entirely covered with the closely- 
set hermaphrodite flowers. I was not able to dissect one of these, 
ut an examination im situ Ponce to confirm the characters I had 
previously made out_in Dr. Seemann’s wild specimens now in the 
British Museum.—Hxnry Troven. 
Currivation or LozantHus rvror#us.—Dr. Moore, of Glasnevin, 
Dublin, in a paper read before the Royal Society (on 20th January), 
europaeus oaks (Q. 
there. The seeds were obtained from Dr. Fenzl, of Vienna (the 
pea is Mier in Caine and <tiee many unsuccessful attempts to 
germinate, by treating them in the same way as the 
Mistletoe, whith is is readily propagated by merely placing the seeds on 
y ob 
inserting the “er the centre of a gently bruised bud on a young 
shoot of the previous year. This was in January and February, 1870 ; 
a few leaves of the Loranthus appeared in April, 1871, up to which 
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