Branner,] 482 {April 18, 
Norn :—The preceding discussion is based upon direct personal obser- 
vation and study of a large number of specimens of the following genera, 
together with others, the botanical names of which I do not at present a 
know : 
Acrocomia, Desmoncus, Mauritia, 
Attalea, Euterpe, Maximiiiana, 
Astrocaryum, Geonoma, , Ginocarpus, 
Bactris, Guilielma, Oreodoxa, 
Copernicia, Hyospathe, Raphia. 
Cocos, Triartea, 
THE LITERATURE OF THE SUBJECT. 
DESFONTAINES : 
1'783-6.—Fragment d’un voyage dans Jes Régences de Tunis et d’ Alger, 
fait de 1783 a 1786, p. 290. 
1798.—Mémoire de l'Institut Nacional, Vol. I., 1798, pp. 478-502. 
DAUBENTON : | 
1790.—Mémoires de 1’ Académie des Sciences, 1790, p. 6656-75. | 
Huao Von Moun: f 
1824.—‘*De Structura Palmarum’”’ contained in Von Martius’ ‘‘Genera 
et Species Palmarum.’’ 
1845,—Same, published in ‘‘ Vermischte Schriften botanischen Inhalts,’’ 
Tiibingen, 1845. 
1845.—‘‘Gelehrte Anzeige’’ of the Royal Academy of Sciences of 
Bavaria, 1845. 
1845.—Comptes Rendus de 1l’Académie des Sciences, Vol. I., for 1845, 
p. 1088. 
1849.—Reports and Papers on Bofany. Ray Society, 1849. (This is 
an English translation of the article in ‘‘Vermischte Schriften ’’ 
containing Von Mohl’s reply to Mirbel.) 
1855,—Bot. Zeitung, p. 878, 1855. 
Gruserrr MENEGHINI : 
1836.—‘‘ Recherche sulla Struttura del caule nelle Piante Monocotile- 
doni,’’ Padova, 1836, Poligrafo IV., pp. 15-19. 
1843.—Considerazioni sulla questione attualmente agitata all’ academia 
de Francia fra Mirbel e Gaudichaud intorno alla struttura del 
tronco delle Monocotoledoni (in Miscellanee di Chemica, Fisica 
e Storia Naturale, 1848). 
1843.—Same, Pisa, Miscell. Med. Chir., 1843 (pte. 2), pp. 197-207. 
1848,—Giornale Encyclop. Italiana, Vol. I., p. 1%. Written 1843, 
