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the convenience of the persons present might seem to be better con- 
sulted by the latter style of expression, yet the former is always and 
justly employed. 
Until quite recent times the general practice of botanists has been 
tolerably ese in following the lead of Linnzeus ; but unfortunately 
Dr. Asa Gray in America, and Mr. Bentham and Dr. Hooker in this 
arma have lately departed from it. In the first volume of their 
‘Genera Plantarum” Bentham and Hooker do not appear to have 
e ut in the 
_ second part of the latter volume they modify their method 
of description by speaking of contorted corolla-lobes as coverin 
t. i 
x 
making a section of the flower and looking down on it, the direction of 
the overlapping set is reversed from what it would be when viewing 
one side of the 
After the ati and satisfactory note of so competent and expe- 
rienced a botanist as A. de Candolle, it is to be hoped that the rational 
Tule of Linneus, which regards the rotation of the hands of a watch 
as dextrorse and the contrary as sinistrorse, will be reverted to and 
universally maintained. 
We Paik 
Botanical Mews. 
Articies In Journats,—Janvary, 1877. 
Mon — i eroscopical Journal.—W. G. Smith, ‘‘ Notes on Pollen” 
(tab. 167-1 
Scottish wa —J. W. H. Trail, ‘‘ Scottish bgp sagt 
son,.*On the recurrence of the rarer Fungi.”—-F. B. White, 
_ Uredo filicum, Desm., and U. (?) pteridum, n.sp. in Stirton, “ New 
an ichens.” 
ns. Linn. Soc. Lond. (ser 2, vol. i., pt. ‘4).—W. P 
ee . “On the African ae of the genus Copa ° “(tab. 24). le: 
Henslow, “On the origin of floral estivations, with notes on structure 
of the Mag eae flower, that of Adoxa, and corolla of Primula (tab. 
25).—R. S. Nelson and P. M. Du one ‘ Points in histology of certain 
Coraltinacea ” (tab. 26, 27).—W. Archer, ‘On bt minute structure 
of growth of ’Ballia sallitriob ” (tab. 28, | 
" Hatigia. —F, Kornicke, ‘‘ Mycological notes " (contd.). 
Bot. Zeitung.—H. de Vries,.‘‘ On the expansion of growing cells 
turgeseence.”—A. Fi 
from turg of Rumex 
maritimus.” —M. — “On =, roast B. ee 
Ww. 
“* Hepaticee Europsee ” (tab. 1 
