OR BOTANICAL NEWS, 
things being equal, that it is functionally protective a undue 
wetting by rain, and thus injury of the leaf-tissue. The ealiness 
i imulas is in so 
e Dr. of Ka 
The ar ae er of the author are that the wild Citrus | 
hystrix DC. is the grandparent of Limo tuberosus Rumph. and Lima | 
of Ceylon, and all their derivations of Limo agrestis, Limenis fert, — 
Limonellus auriarus, and others; while also more distantly the — 
grandparent of piers vabkivaies true limes of India, Ceylon, an 
other parts. It was suggested that the winged petiole of the Lime 
was derived from its progenitor, Citrus hystrix. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Tue Norwich Museum has lately received from Sir James Paget 
a collection of British dried plants and marine Alge formed some 
fifty years ago by himself and a 
them in compiling their ‘ — of the Natural History of Yar- 
mouth and its Neighbourhood’ in 1834. This collection had been 
deposited at St. Bartholomew’s eee tal, but Sir James was of © 
opinion me it would be of greater value at Norwich, especially as 
showing the changes which ae aken elas in the local flora m 
the course of years. It finds a resting-place in the museum of the 
county in which it ‘was found, with similar donations of Sir J. E. 
Smith and the bequest of Mr. John Drew Salmon 
Herr Boysmany, of nope ee Holland, fied sent us ss - 
of dried "nite, with the floral and fruit parts dissected and se 
rately mounted. Those ec which would be injured by sa 
are placed in alcohol in small fiat-sided bottles, so that they can be 
readily examined with a lens. Small of flowers are also. 
mounted in the same way, and where ed require a higher power 
han an ordinary lens they are mounted on glass slides for use Wi 
the microscope. Although these spesediet are intended primarily 
as a series of medicinal plants, Herr Buysmann undertakes to pre- — 
pare, so far as he can, such plants as may be required by subscribers. _ 
The series will prove to be of great assistance to teachers of sy8- = 
tematic botany. 
Portugal for the p se of collecting oie 
collect at least 500 species, which will be disposed of to subscribers 
at 80 fr. per cen’ + a amount to be paid before his de- — 
Lsgeoag be which will she. nee on March 15th. G renee 
Ske: ANTONY sai has are appointed to an can in the 
eet of Botany, British — 
