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asa proof of antiquity, and instanced Conifers, which, though a very 
ancient order, are highly variable. In reference to the use of Aristolo- 
che in snake-bites, he stated that they, and indeed all such reputed 
remedies, were really but little used in India. Dr. Trimen alluded to 
anew species about to be described by Dr. Hance, which is largely 
employed in China [since published in this Journal, p. 72]. Remarks 
e a iselt 
the 
described Anastrophea from Abyssinia, the other the widely 
new genusis named Angola, and 
was found in Angola, West Tropical Africa, by M. Montero. Drawings 
of the plant accompanied the paper.—Prof. Thiselton Dyer exhibited a 
it to be formed of a single scale, and to be an ordinary glume subtend- 
ing the female flower on a secondary axis, of which the seta of many 
species of Carex, and of all the species of Uncinia—which cannot be 
considered as a genus distinct from Carer—is the continuation. If the 
lineates. Schleiden delineates the two parts of the perigy: 
the seta as forming three parts of one whole ; but his drawing is ae 
to be depended upon, as he places them in a wrong position with rela- 
tion to the axis and the subtending glume. Kunth confirms his oe 
Y @ comparison with the palea and occasional seta of q 1 
here the position of the two parts in the two orders is by no means 
