HEPATION AMAZONICH ET ANDINE. 128 
“al Since no distribution of duplicates has yet been made of the new 
pecies, it would be premature to discuss them: We propose, there- 
of Vis 
MGs. eS Long years ago I pointed out to the late Dr. 
sited of Dunkerron, how inconvenient it was to find authors 
Peaking of dorsal ferns—meaning thereby ferns which bore their 
Oo k 
t on 
. ‘oe of a Jungermannia, or of the dorsal lobe of the leaf, 
‘You me meant the upper surface, or upper lobe. He replied, 
called 7 tly complain of this ambiguity, and the man who first 
ee vs € stipules belly-bands (amphigastria) has much to answer 
De oun author appears to be as fond of notes as the lamented 
uimey, and those on the distribution and affinities of species, 
ib d 
of th ; d its primary angles at the axis, or fold, 
tHe three complicate flower-leaves; hence its trigonous form, 
‘Sgr there are only two such leaves, and they are pressed together 
y their faces, a complanate perianth results, at right angles to fant 
i er 
trigonous, with the third angle in front, as we see 16 in Lophocolea ; 
folde may still be complanate and ancipitous, if the underleaf be 
Olded along the middle,” as in Leioscy 
phus. 
Our concluding extract shall be morphological. Under Plagio- 
Pro ‘ » m e 
fr surface 
¢ 
chila (pp. 452-8) we find the following notes:—‘ 
indicate a degree 
mai 
ers that survive start off on a se 
