440 Scientific Intelligence. 
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well planned. The bare index to the 215 species of Mesembryanthemum 
figured by Salm-Dyck is contrived so as to occupy rather more than four 
pages. A. G. 
4, Parthenogenesis ; by E. Reext, (Bot. Zeitung, Oct. 8, 1858, 
and a translation by Henfrey in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Feb. 1859).— 
Mr. Regel stoutly denies vegetable parthenogenesis altogether; but some 
of his objections are those of a special pleader rather than of an investi- 
gator, such especially as his remarks upon the case of Celebogyne. He 
records, however, some new observations upon Spinacia and peta ses 
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pect that hermaphrodite plants continuously self-fecundated would after a 
while become sterile and so verge to extinction, so, on the other, sexual 
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tions sur 1 Hérédité dans les Vegetaux, &c.; M. Louis ViLmoriN. 
Paris, 1859, 8vo pamphl., pp. 64.—This very interesting pamphlet 1s 
a collection and reprint of several of Louis Vilmorin’s important com- 
memoir, as the younger Vilmorin informs us, was the point of depar of 
for his own investigations in this field, and even contains the germ 
_ New varieties of these cultivated races are ori ‘ 
every year, indeed ; but between these particular varieties, the differences, 
however well marked, are n for im] 
eases, c'est la premiere pas que coiite. 
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es which the wild plant has generally undergone, in ee 
ing the esculent state. In this amelioration or alteration, as in oth 
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