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eerie of the latter with a fringed margin. We have from the same 
author his 
Considérations sur le Méthode Naturelle en Botanique. 8vo pamph. 
Florence, 1863.—A good historical view of the development of the nat- 
ural method, with some pertinent illustrations of the obvious importance 
in all the divisions, from highest to lowest, of looking to types and the 
ensemble of characters rather than resting upon single points,—in other 
words, of carrying the spirit of the natural rather than of artificial sys- 
tems throughout the whole domain of botany. 
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that published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1834, on the evolu- 
gen gas by plants in the da ‘ Da udes : 
engendered by the various processes of putrefaction and decay,”—engen- 
dered, we may add, as much by decaying vegetable as by animal matter, 
_ 5. Morphology of Stamens, and use of Aborti 
number of the Pedi Chronicle, the editor, in giving a full account 
Dombeya angulata,—a rare plant, which has just flowered at Kew,— 
describes as follows the morphology of the stamens, and the remarkable 
assistance which the staminodia, or — stamens, seem to render as 
weens, carrying pollen from the efficient stamens to t Ss. 
“The stamens in thie plant, as in all the Malvales, may be looked upon 
48 compound: while the ordinary stamen corresponds to a simple leaf, 
the Groups of stamens in the Mallows and allied orders may be regarded 
equivalents of compound leaves, united together at their’ bases, 
