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those in the tumbler for some time later; altogether the process 
was observed in hundreds of spores. The peculiar phenomenon to 
were detected in them—usually a to-and-fro movement. 
of the bounding membrane. This kind of change was familiar to 
_ the author as occurring in the resting-stage of Amaba. 
A corrEsponpEnt asks about a “ distinct species’ of Fritillaria 
announced as a British plant by the Globe of April 23 in the follow- 
ing passage :—‘ Among the purple snake’s-heads, with their cha- 
roport name Ff’. precox appears in Sweet’s 
Hortus Britannicus, p. 426 (1827), but it is needless to say that the 
Meleagris, 
Dr. Orro Kuntze has sent for our ins i h 
pection proofs of the 
Introductory Chapter of the « Lexicon Generum Phaneroga 
inde ab anno i 
