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Genus sat naturale quatuor speciebus Loleliarum brasitentibs ie 
antea nominatis, quarum tamen. haud una satis cognita erat, fundat 
C. : 
2 Fe organensis, Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv., 123, ex Walp. 
Rep. vi., 375, sec. ects fragmentariam certe est Haynaldia ; 
an bona s 
taynaldi« differt a plurimis Lobeliaceis rae ae a Lobelia 
etiam bracteis magnis et e Zupa insuper corolla bila 
edico hoe genus viro excellentissimo “ reiverteiduatcis Ludovico 
Haynald SS. Th.D. Archiepise. Coloc. et Bécs., scientie amabilis 
cultori felici, botanicorum fautori, auibtseis patrono optimo.—(From 
the se Magyar Novéntanilapok,” 1877, p. 3.) 
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Cansya, Parry, is a new genus of Papaveracee discovered by Dr. 
E. Palmer, in 1876, in S. E. Gal lifornia, and is dedicated to W. M. 
Canby, of Wilmington, Delaware. It is very small, forming tufts of 
an inch in height. A full description and a good figure are given in 
own to be a good genus. Both have ‘sony. persistent petals, a 
singular anomaly in this Order. The following is the diagnosis :— 
YA 
ovar 
prorsus papillosa: capsula ovoidea, membranacea, a vertice a 
in trivalvis, valvis sit eee filiformes cum stigmatibus per- 
sistentes nudentibus. Semina plurima, elongato-oblonga, parum 
arcuata; testa levissima nitida; raphe haud prominula, —_ 
annua, glabra parum uncinalis; fo iis alternis linearibus inte ege- 
rimis subcarnosis cum ramis brevissimis ceespitoso-confertissimis ; : 
capis pe ) unifloris ; petalis 
es albise 
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Test doo of Structural and Physiological Botany. By Orto W. 
HomE. Translated and edited by ALFrrep W. Bennett. Illust 
with about 600 woodcuts and a coloured map. Longauns, 1877 
(pp. 4 
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