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endosperm. The whole ovule rapidly enlarges; some of the floating 
ranules arrange themselves into elongated masses, others into 
N . 
is very remarkable, and although twenty species were 
ere are no alpine forms. Adeno- 
us. ; 
y or Eprnsurcr. — June 12th. — ‘ Notice 
of. Botanical Excursions made in 1872 and 1878 (No. 4).” . By 
Prof. Balfour.—‘‘On the Re-tubbing of - Palms Pg other 
i n. 
large exotics in the Royal Botanic G 
—Mr Sadler exhibited a growing plant of deer pseudo- 
platanus, on whic e had made an experiment as 
inch in breadth, was removed from the main stem, and the wood 
underneath rubbed perfectly dry. In a few weeks a swelling was 
visible on both the upper and under edges of the cut, being the 
Ww 
sessing them, though healthy-looking, were smaller in. size than tho: 
of similar age which ha a such growths. The plants had been 
sent by Mr. Anderson, of the Perth Nurseries. 
* These have been a 
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lready, so far as could then be done, noticed in this Journal 
(vol. x., p, 235). 
