76 Scientific Intelligence. 
among the American species of Fritillaria, which, as far as we 
know them, have bulbs of small white and granular ‘scales, loosely 
esi to a solid central axis from which the stem springs. 
Of all the Old World Lilies and Fritillaries, only two, namely, 
Lilium avenaceum and Fritillaria Kamtschatkensis, resemble 
their American congeners in the formation of their bulbs, and both 
is ae eee by two or three pages of letter-press, containing 
a technical description of the species with a list of synonyms and 
references to other figures, as well as all available information in 
regard to its native “habitat and mode of growth: also the his- 
tory of its introduction into cultivation, and full cultural eel 
tions, derived from the author’s own experience, and from that of 
the most successful lily growers of Europe. When Doniiogel 
the work will contain forty-eight colored plates, to which is to be 
joined an introductory chapter, containing wood-cuts of bulbs and 
oeyer details, and a map showing the geographical par hea of 
the genus. 
7. Beitrdge zur 6g hd der Bolieteacten, “Dr. “EL. 
Bavxe. Extract from Pringsheim’s Jahrbiicher, me xi, 1878.— 
But little now remains to be studied with regard. to the formation 
of the the nu in the raged suborders of Ferns. Not to 
germination of the  eegacenes Dr. Bauke hing: Sa ing 
nation in several species of Aneinia an and in M 
iffers from Burch who has recently eee the det 
rum. He di 
opment of the prothallus in Aneémia in several respects, and he 
oes not consider that what Burch calls the “ pousse latérale nor- 
male” is in any sense a lateral shoot, but simply that the forma- 
tion of the cushion, in which the archegonia are produced, is in 
pia case on the lateral margin of the prothallus rather than at the 
sinus, as in the Polypodiacee este states that, 
aigics ugh in general the prothallus of the ‘Schizwacece differs from 
that of the Polypodiacee, fick there are Parancoas a 
— connect the two su 
Ueber Aschesivanhholt und Blatiflechenlorank: heit ee 
Cieamenhinead e; by Ferix von Taumen.—The pamphlet beatins 
the present title is the latest contribution from the Experiment 
Station for the Culture of the Grape and Fruit at Klasterreenberg, 
