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nal Plants ;” Mr. Holms, Curator of the Museum of the Pharmaceuti- 
cal Society, for his investigations in yg le with ome Plants ; 
General Munro, for his Monograph of the Grami 
Hiern, for his work on the Rubiacee of the m Flora of Priced Africa ;’ ; 
Mr. Bentham, for his ‘‘ Flora Australiensis ;” Dr: Trail, for his psa 
on the Flora of the Island of Rodriguez ; Mr. J. G. Baker, for his 
Monograph of the Liliacee; Dr. Master s, for his work on the Res- 
tiaceé ; Mr, Duthie, for the Uyrtacca of re ** Flora of British India; ” 
the Re ev. J. M. Crombie, Mr. Labalestier, and Mr. Jos i for their 
investigations into the Lichens of Britain; Mr. Boe and owse, 
for pike Fungi; Rev. W. W. Newbould, Mr. B. D. Sackeca, Mr. 
Pryor, Mr. Mansel-Pleydell, Mr, Webb, , Mr. Townsend, - 
Mr “Churchill and Mr. Stratton, for their ma study of European 
and British Plants; cis a paca and Mr. Holmes, for the study of 
British Mosses ; a . Gardner, for dhe study of the Tertiary 
Plants of Hampshir 
GEOGRAPHICAL STATISTICS OF THE EXTRA-BRITISH 
EUROPEAN FLORA. 
By Tuomas Comper, 
(Continued from p. 151.) 
Albumen.—The more extensive range of British plants with 
atbuminohe seeds, and especially of those in which the albumen is 
being or mealy, is also repeated in the Continental flora; the averages 
ein 
Average. 
Tore with albumen ppl or mealy . ‘ * 2°98 
ZIUT gy is shy or horny . oe OE 
$204 ,, » absent or very scanty . . 2°49 
As bearing on the question a albuminous seeds the better 
survive carriage by ocean currents, I referred in my former paper to 
Mr. Darwin’s well-known experiment on the resistance of seeds 
by M. G. Thuret, of ‘Antibes, who Kept the seeds of a a age of 8 
in sea-water for 80 long a period as thirteen months. In some 
not germinate even when kept dry. Leaving such cases out of 
consideration, I find that of Barn albuminous-seeded species experi- 
