a THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
construction of the flower, pollination is treated of at length, 
fruit and seed are described, and reference is made, with illus- 
trations, to some monstrous forms. comparison with allied 
species follows, mainly H. fetidus, then theoretical considerations, 
with the summing up thus: “In its essentials, therefore, the 
flower H. niger represents a remarkably simple floral con- 
struction, and in all probability is as near the ancestral type from 
which the bulk of modern angiospermous flowers have been 
derived as may be found.” Systematic relationships are thus 
briefly dismissed: “From the standpoint of such primitive con- 
th 
struction the genus Helleborus, with n s forms con- 
ventionally included in the genus (about fifteen species), is included 
ill more conventional group fanunculacee, a somewhat 
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modern highly-glazed paper, the life of which is, we believe, limited 
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ili The price, 21s. per part, means presumably 
about eight guineas for the entire work: this is perhaps high from 
the student's point of view, but is by no means high on the 
assumption that the standard of production realized in the first 
part will be maintained throughout. hat Pecan 
