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tip. The petiolar tube is covered with hairs which appear to 
co. as root-hairs. In M. fabaceus the tube is very short, 
but in the other species examined, including the classic case of 
ejarrhien californica (probably Marah macrocarpus), described 
by Asa Gray and Charles Darwin, the petiolar tube may be as 
much as 6 inches long. In orridus, the seeds of which species 
were sent to Kew by Mr. F. B.S. Balfour, of Dawyck, the petiolar 
tube not only splits into be two halves but the petioles further 
split into three strands, containing a vascular bundle, and 
each strand appears to Ba responsible for the building up of a 
ee portion of the tuber 
the same meeting De Stapf exhibited inflorescences of the 
Sam: tree (Ceratonia Siliqua), representing the several sexual 
conditions in which the tree occurs. He also gave an account of 
Cavanilles’s observations in the Carob groves of Valencia and the 
work done by Heckel and Boingdenauren on the French Riviera, 
and by Gennadius in Cyprus. nequgracs " these authors most 
of the apparently cae ee, that is, t with very small sub 
sessile anthers, are eality hariak pint (brackiystemonous 
hermaphrodites ae sonteadietinetion from the rare dolic 
monous hermaphrodites). But Dr. Stapf pointed out that no 
stiiaes containing pollen could be found in the “ brachystemo nous” 
specimens in the Kew Herbarium, in spirit material recently 
received from the Italian Riviera, and in preparations of such 
stery surrounding the Sg rane of the Carob tree, which is 
certainly worth studying on the s 
THE Annals of the Missouri accion is hardly the ate where 
we should expect ee find a = si on “Some Cnotheras from 
Cheshire and Lancashire,” e think British otaatols will 
thank us for oaltitig ake xdiention to it. Mr. R. R. Gates deals 
at length with the “plants, which ode ae sag attention 
from American botanists and everyw appear “ t spread- 
ing, although children gather the Howering inet = armfuls,” 
being most abundant at St. Anne’s-on-Sea. Mr. Gates has 
cultivated many of the “races,” aa Ustoribes at length GH. multi- 
systematic species if b rimentally would sent not 
breed truer within narrower onan than these races have done. 
The paper is illustrated by th = in which are figured 
various stages of the forms mention 
The number of the Annals ss which the paper appears 
presents paren bibliographical peculiarities. It is dated on the 
cover and on the first page “ November 1914,” and contains a 
titlepage and —* for “ Vol. i. 1914,” of which it forms a part. 
But to Dr. Gates r and three others is appended a footnote: 
$ acon Jan 30, 1915, ” although a fifth paper, and that the 
last in the num , bears no such intimation! No indication is 
