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a way that access of air was not prevented, the apparatus was then 
brought to a window, but was not exposed to full sunlight; the 
n n 
m commencement of soaking) small secondary compound parieta 
starch-grains made their appearance in the subepidermal layer, and 
similar but smaller grains in the epidermis; these became perfected 
days, and after a lls of the now green cotyledons contained 
“false”? chlorophyll granules, the starch-grains havin sur- 
a cove f green plas ese so-called “ false ” 
ehlorophyll gr are different from those to which the term is 
asnally applied, since instead of being composed of one grain of starch, 
al ey ted into a a in are surroun h 
green plasma; they are, in fact, precisely similar, both anatomically 
and physiol ogically, to the eich enclosing ‘‘true” chlorophyll 
the lapse of eight or nine days from commencement of ger- 
mination, the enclosed starch granules begin to disappear, separating 
from one another, and the intervals between them becoming occupied 
. Ifa young 
cotyledons be placed in the dark, the chlorophyll granules will not 
cote lose their starch, which is always present in sufficient 
antity to give them a granular appearance. The reason of this is 
that the cotyledons also contain large primary starch-grains which 
furnish material for growth, and it is pas when these have been ex- 
hausted that the sonnet of the secondary granules included in 
green plasma takes plac 
The author Sanataclen: therefore, that ‘ true ” chlorophyll granules 
are sometimes formed by the surrounding of compound grains of 
starch with green plasma. Essentially the same thing holds with 
aici oc 
Botanical Pews. 
| ARTICLES IN JoURNALS,—JULY. 
Flora.—J. Klein, “‘ Algological Notes.”—F. Arnold, ‘ Lichenolo- 
cal Fragments.” —Id., ‘ ‘ Mosses of the French Jura.”—K. Prantl, 
oe mes ten: ham use of the disease of the 
Bot. Zeitung.—C. Gobi, “On the mode of growth of the thallus of of 
—L. Cela- 
_ Pheosporea.”—W. J. Behrens, ‘ On the flowers of grasses.”” 
ee Seema eeemarenresic ee: Reinke, “Remarks on the ter- 
