Botany. 479 
13, Su + Kote ae of Man in the st ae near the Darda- 
nelles,—J. Luspock communicates to “Nat of March 27th, 
the icrintace: "Cit a letter from Mr. F. cba to Mr. E. Cal- 
vert announces the discovery in beds, regarded as Miocene Ter- 
tiary, of bones supposed to be of the Mastodon or Dinotherium, 
having on them etchings of figures of animals. 
Il. Botany. 
by Van Tieghon in Comptes Rendus, Aug. i4, 1871, and Ann. 
oO 
conclusions thus: The le always consists of a lobe of a car- 
pellary leaf, folded hetoae 3 a "pallies antes inserted upon the 
medial line of the lobe: 2. in Ailsidipcomnd upon the upper or fra- 
mine, characterized by the presence 
of vascular chiles is = commonly the o only membrane which per- 
sists in the mature seed; the secundine, except in rare cases 
oon eebieieed is only a detaplenion of the primine, — 
mostly transitory. 
2. Bhasbossal American Origin of Rubus Ideus., sites enlt- 
vated Raspberry is an importation from Europe. Our native Red 
Raspberry, R. strigosus, however, is so near it that the specific 
distinctness has been in doubt; and specimens from British Amer- 
ica and the Rocky Mountains certainly occur which a botanist 
must needs refer to R. Ideus itself. In his studies of the Euro- 
pean Pr i 
ave a ry must needs infer a community of origin. janis 
concludes, accordingly, that “this species did not iigisaily have 
its hom me in Soros, ut its origin is to be found a the east of 
Amecicn,” Ye ia Gas of the members of that ol boreal flors (as 
we suppose) now mainly East Asiatic and North American, which 
