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0°30, water 114, bases dissolved out by hydrochloric acid 2:19= 
100°30. It would be of geological interest to find the locality of 
) en, Ct., contain orthoclase instead of albite, and the 
material is evidently from the rather coarse granites that lie just 
ne D. 
2. Martius, Fl 
have all appeared during this current year; the first bears the 
date of February, the last of July, 1871. The enlightened Em- 
peror of Brazil, while in Germany this year (where he visited the 
grave of von Martius, and plucked and preserved some flowers as 
this great national work, under Dr. Kichler’s efficient direction. 
Dr. Kichler has this year been called to fill the chair of Botany at 
of the structure of the embryo, the amount of albumen, and the 
simply imbricative sstivation of the corolla, Yet in the diagnostic 
coroua .... lobis .... per wstivationem 
contortis.” With good judgment, he refers all to the one genne 
Cuseuta, and gives a conspectus of all the tropical and subtropical 
American species, after Engelmann. Eighteen Brazilian species 
are described, one figured at oe and the flowers, seeds, &c., of 
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jr @ are equally maintained by Mr. Bennett as an m- 
pendent iter which may almost equally well be de- 
eter way ; but we have before alluded to a connecting link 
een this group and the Hydrophyleaceee which our author 
