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latter name is accidentally printed Hesperocordium m the auten 
tus; and further on, Hesperoscordium. ‘The latter is ieee 
intended (and a laudab le) innovation, a it is hard t 6 pronouhes 
the original name, as must needs be, with the accent on the penult. 
mn the shi dese of Bengal, b me B, Clarke; another pa- 
f 
watted there from the shveisrtea side byt the Gulfstream and the 
ican current. The principal interest to us is in the following 
statement :— 
cotyledons, roots, and terminal bud, quite fresh ; small fruits par- 
tially decayed, evidently eneueeded legumes ; intermixed were 
various microscopical crustacea, and a common oceanic insect, one 
of the Hydrodromidew, genus Halobates ; on some of the pieces of 
drift wood were numerous elliptical ova, of a deep orange ooh, 
mixed with which was growing the smallest of the three Algw 
now eS te described.” 
be tried with single ieaved fearsits of leaf-stalk. Duchartre 1 made 
a portion of his experiments with epiphytes, both Orchids a 
Bromeliacew, and concluded that the same applied to the sista 
roots as well as the foliage. There was no gain in weight except 
when liquid water reached the leaves, — or other “tein ba of 
e surface, when Poe Ate ek = hha tly indicated by increase 
in weight: and it appeared th absorption of liquid water 
hardly took place by the “ata sass these were immersed or 
po eae and thoroughly wet. This again corresponds with some 
experiments which went to show Shae syringed foliage did 
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