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irregularities in the arrangement of the bracts of the inflorescence 
and flowers might be observed. 
Ar a meeting of the same Society on March 2nd, Mr. 
Druce fond’ a paper on the occurrence in Ireland of Carex rhi yndhon 
physa, as reported in this Journal for 1893, p. 83 (t. 832), and gave 
reasons for believing that Cares rostrata var. latifolia had been mis- 
taken for it. Typical specimens of both were exhibited, and also a 
coloured drawing by Mr. N. E. Brown of one of the plants collected 
by Mr. Lloyd Praeger near Mullaghmore Lough, Armagh. 
same meeting Mr. Edward ts read a met on the fertilization 
Glaux maritima. Att ter examining s hundreds of 
hep along the coast near Port mest + Oita, he had ‘coil 
the conclusion that the flower is protogynous. When open, the 
bet lobes at first separate but slightly, affording only a narrow 
entrance. The curvature of the style is sufficient to bring it within 
the fold of a calyx-lobe, from which the stigma projects so as to 
be in the way of any insect that visits the flower for the liquid that 
exudes from the ovary and base of the style. When the yellow 
pollen is shed, the style 1 is either quite erect, or retains its original 
bend sufficiently above th tion pro obable. 
Owing to the lowly Miabit of the plant and its customary crowding 
in with sea-sedge and grasses, it is not an easy one to watch. Doubt- 
less it is often fertilized with its own pollen by the agency of flies 
and other insects; but, from the position and precocity of the stigma, 
Mr. Step considered that cross- fertilization is quite as — He 
was consequently unable to agree with Mr. Henslow (Trans. Linn 
c., n. 8. Bot. i. 1880, p. 877, pl. 4, fig. 35) as to self- tecttiinativt 
in this plant, believing his conclusion to have been drawn from t 
examination of an abnormal speci 
Mr. F s has kita a second edition of the 
« Pidvisional and Menthe List of the Orders and Families of 
British Flowering Plants,” which was noticed in this Journal for 
1896 (p. 47). Co opies may be obtained from the pathae, 181, High 
Street, Brentford, for sevenpence, post-free 
Tue Strand opie for March prints a letter by General Gordon 
the Garden of Eden, in which occurs & reference to ‘* The Lao- 
dicean Seychellarum, or Coco di Mir 
Mr. I. H. Burgin has been appointed assistant to the Director 
of Kew Gardens; Mr. C. C. H. Pearson has joined the Kew staff as 
paren say wis 
and (larden Ca 8vo, pp. , 286, 
hotanioal no ae can read  Aeithiont profit. Under her 
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supplied by an admirable series of illustrations, excellen 
produced from photographs; an d when we arrive at Decem root 
she has all sorts o interesting supplementary information for us 
