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The conciusion is that fleshy albumen is endowed with indepen- 
dent activity in germination, the embryo having only absorb 
matter already dissolved ; but the embryo of seeds with mealy and 
horny albumen evolves a fluid rendering the latter soluble. 
Rotices of Books. 
The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. By 
Caartes Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Murray. London. 1877. 
Ir is usually the fortune of great authors to have their fragments 
brought together by a not necessarily sedulous or over-wise editor, 
and by this means it often happens that sufficient justice is not done 
tothem. That there is no danger of this occurring in Mr. arwin’s 
case is again shown by the volume at present before us, in which the 
Mr. Darwin prefers Hildebrand’s term of lism ; 
éapliaus by Lats of variability in the length of pistils and stamens, 
st simultaneous manifestation of the s reproductive 
i a plant is truly heterostyled, Mr. Darwin holds—and 
posh torn pate ot creme de A ereme of the book—that we have be- 
fore us an arrangement for effecting cross-fertilisation in every way 
comparable with the other means for ensuring the same end ; viz., 
diccism, dichogamy, self-sterility, prepotency of foreign pollen and 
entomophily. 
from th eeataal kingdom, has our strong support. Mr. Darwin does 
