382 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
a Ee call them ‘‘ Arjina,’”’ and eat the greater number of 
e great ‘‘ Kokerboom ” (or Quiver Tree), Aloe dicho- 
st was, “however, the mo striking vegetable production of the 
country, attaining a diameter of 4 feet in the stem in full-grown indi- 
means strictly dichotomous in all cases. Often a collection of slightly 
divergent stems have a common base, as if a number of individuals 
had grown together; but the majority are single thick trunks. Som 
of the thicker round-headed old plants have very much the appearance 
of a Pandanus. I thought at first that there were two species con- 
. The flo y 
you a rough sketch of one of the oldest-looking specimens we 
saw. There were none sade the coast, but ed at numbers from fifty 
Gotanical Pews. 
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 
Flora (September).—0O. Brefeld, ‘‘ Mucor racemosus and Yeast.” — 
C. Haussknecht, ‘On Species of Fumaria sect. Spherocapnos, DC.” 
(F. eilicica, n. 8.5 F. Boissiors, N.S. ). 
OcropER. 
evillea.—M. J. Berkeley, ‘ Notices of hfe fmerian Fungi” 
(ict 5. Agee C. Cooke, * Classific ation of Spher . 
Quart. J vis Moroes, Science. —W. Archer, ‘“ sieanok of Recent 
* sei on n Parasitio Alge.”—J, Lister, ‘‘ Further Contributions 
to the Natural History of Bacteria and the Germ Theory of Ferment- 
ative Changes” (tab. 19—2 1).—E. R, ae ‘On a Peach- 
coloured Bacterium (B. rubescens, n.8.)”? (tab. 22, 2 
Journ. Linn, Soc., n. 73 (Oct. 9 9).—G. Dickie, ‘ ‘Kote on the Buds 
Developed on Leaves of Ualaxis.”—J. C. de Mello, ‘On Cissampelos 
fe of Velloz.”—C. B. Clarke, “ On a New Genus of Hydrocharidee’ 
ere tab. 1).—A. Gray, ‘Revision of the Genus Symphori- 
Gray, ‘‘ Note on Nemacladus, Nutt.’—M. J. Berkeley and C. E. 
Broome, ‘‘ Enumeration of the Fungi of Ceylon.” 
Fis Bot. crags —C. Luerssen, “On the Stomata of Ka ulfussia,”?— 
7 ‘*On + he centrifugal Thickening of the Parenchyma-cells of the 
alias (tab. vi. +R. Wolff, “* Contribution to Knowledge of 
