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lobule a mere appendage of it, the rest as in the first view. Ac- 
cording to the third view, the scutellum, with its lobule where 
He determines that the scutellum is the main body of the cotyledon 
(it receives vascular bundles, one or more, from the axis as does a 
eases in the monocotyledons, as in Canna. But Graminew and 
Cyperacee are remarkable for a greater specialization of parts, 
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some qualities in the order of grasses.” The authenticity of the 
Medical and Economical Botany, says: “Grains narcotic and 
acrid, producing fatal consequences when mixed with flour,” Mr. 
Wilson began by taking small quantities of the meal of Darnel, 
raised by himself, rising from two grains (8 kernels) to fifty grains, 
then eating a mess of pottage made of a hundred grains, an 
finally eating cakes made in great part of the husks or bran of 
Darnel. No symptoms of any kind were experienced. A. G. 
9. Saecardo on certain small Bodies in the Fovilla of Pollen 
(Nuovo Giornale Botan. Ital., Dec. 10, 1872.—The author states 
that botanists are agreed that the minute ins in the con- 
tents of pollen consist of starch granules, oil-globules, Anes: and 
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. flo , Esechscholizia crocata, Ming 3 
ee, Portulaca grandiflora, Althea rosea, whose somatia 
figured as fusiform, discoid, &c. To observe these small bodies to 
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