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genus of Hymenoptera, has been generally abandoned, in accord- 
A i h ; 
followed.” We should have thought that the contrary expressed 
both the practice and the rule of the present day. An article by 
Baillon upon the Rhubarb plant is translated from the Hevue 
Scientifique for September. This we have reproduced. A. G. 
11. Discharge of the Seeds of Witch-Hazel (Hamamelis).—The 
in, discharging the seed when mature, with a spring to some 
distance.” In cent communication to the Academy of Nat- 
as in a violet (as is mentioned under the ordinal character in 
Gray’s Manual), only in that the whole valve folds in condu- 
e instance, viz.: in cle in Popular Science ®& 
view, reprinted in Popular Science Monthly for January (p J 
Here the author, Mr. Bennett, interpreting the nal state- 
employed, is consistently led into the astonishing statement that 
h f th ican Witch-Hazel are 
thrown out with such force as to strike people violently ™ the 
face — through the woods!” A. G 
12. Chlorodictyon, a new Genus of the Caulerpa Group ; by 
- G. AGarpu, with a plate——which represents the- Ramalina 
