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of mucilage-canals. The system of mucilage-canals in the pith is 
continuous with that of the cortex, but the medullary bundles form 
an independent primary system. The mucilage-canal system is 
probably of use as a storehouse of moisture during the dry season, 
when the roots and foliage die away. A younger seedling plant of 
E. horridus Lehm. exhibited in the hypocotyledonary region, the 
transitional region sheiwoeh stem and root, at one point a curious 
large cauline, and partially concentric strand, and several smaller 
strands or bundles lying farther out in the cortex. These, ac Dl 
to the author, represented the rudiments of the outer acals ar 
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such fossil plants as the Midulloute, In the opinion of the author 
e ancestry of modern Cycads must be looked for in that fossil 
group. 
WE are nee: to note that the Enumeration of Chinese Plants, 
which has been suspended for five years and a half, has been 
resumed in the Linnean Society 
instalment contains the Urticee by Mr.C. H. Wright, the Juglandacee 
and Quercinee by Mr. S. A. Skan, the remainder of the — 
and the Salicacee by Mr. I. H. Burkill. Now that Mr. Hems sley 
venience of citation, the name of the author should be placed at 
Ww. sta n 
elaborated the <Artocarpea, al ho ugh- from internal evidence we 
elieve Mr. Hemsley is responsible. for them. We trust that the 
tae saat of this important work will proceed without further 
hindran 
We are glad to learn that our contributor Mr. James co IEC 
of Luton, ii been elected an Associate of the Linnean Society. 
Tue contrast between the colouring of the plates in the earlier 
and the later volumes of the Botanical Magazine, like that between 
those of the first and third editions of Hnglish Botany, has long been 
in the flowers of Kleinia Grantii (t. 7691) is applied with a care- 
lessness which should not be allowed to pass unnoticed. 
Tue mysterious modes of publication eet characterize the 
Kew Bulletin still continue. In October we had ‘‘ Appendix I 
1900,”” dated for that year on wrapper nit front page: now we 
ner fhe 1 ae II, 1899,’’ dated November and issued in 
r; containing a list of ‘‘ New Garden Plants of the 
Vist 1898 i It is not easy to conceive what useful purpose can 
