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th and prickly ki I Of Jessenia (Enocar- 
pus) I believe we have two er yin the second one —_— pro- 
bably the polycarpus ot Karsten. Of ra besides oleracea, we have 
a low arundinaceous kind on the hills, an gla nent leved kind 
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there is much importance in the character as given oa Grisebach of 
trunk thickened at the middle, our second species is not O. regia, Kth. 
Geonoma is a well-marked and not uncommon species here, but @. ory- 
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guishing character ; one finds entire and very much pinnatifid leaves 
on es same plant. Of Desmonecus we have two very distinct species, 
and D. minor. Of Bactris we have at least three species 
Cece what Grisebach h gives to Trinidad. cannot match our very 
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dureum is a very distinct and striking species along the south coast in 
poor soe districts. Of he sats sclerocarpa seems our only species. 
Of Maximilianawe nen i caribes and sem - a quite Cig 
the latter rare, bu ly indigenous. @ we have tw 
other ee plants jeer "Capladewica Danton. probably gracilis aad 
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a Association, Dr. R. H. Ward made a report on a specimen 
of viscid-lookin water from Lake Michigan, near sar The 
RLY Frowertne or Hrracievm.—The accompanying specimen 
of Sa Sphondylium was pert to-day (Feb. 20th) in a hedge- 
bank by the roadside about half a mile from the village of Hatfield, 
Herts.—R. A. Pryor. The plant sent by our cor: orrespondent. is 
coming into flower, the marginal flowers of the umbels being expanded, 
the inner ones in bud. Its flowers are remar arkable in bavine pe 
of a dark reddish-purple colour. pene Journ. Bot.) 
Tue Topix Trsr ror Funct. _will = allow me to thank Mr. M. 
= “and for calling my attention (p. 92) to ce ertain recent works in 
"ten ite are recorded the results of the application of iodine to 
oe m of Pezize? He is mistaken, however, in saying 
that Picohcel: as akes any reference to the subject in his *‘Symbo “9 
Mycologice, me either in the body ot his work or in the ‘* nny Nach- 
trag” of 1871 as far as I am able to discover.—W: Putt 
