156 _ Scientific Intelligence. 
The Journal “ the Linnean Society: Botany, vol. x 
Fone parts of this volume have appeared, the latest = Fc in 
May, 1879. The more notable seca are the follow 
Exper net on ag Nutrition of Drosera none by 
Francis Darwin. The conclusions reached have become familiar 
through abietachs deittibea at the time of the experiments. The 
paper is preface a summary of the various and most diverse 
opinions se oe upon the question whether the leaves of 
Drosera and Dionca can absorb animal matter, and whether, if 
they do, ay advantage to the plant results. The affirmative is 
clearly made out by well-devised experiment; yet, “it may be 
pointed out that this advantage of ~ Sie Drosera i sag is one 
which would escape the notice of a casual obser A post- 
arg “oe refers to the full confirmation of his veacilte iy th he researches 
, Kellermann and Raumer, published in the Botanische 
Zeitang. 
Observations on the Genus Pandanus (the Screw-Pines), by Dr. 
Isaac Bayley Balfour. This paper is prefatory to a full mono- 
graph of Pandanew, which this m aa pr omising botanist has 
undertaken, after a study of ron of its isle bags tar in 4 
living state and iv their habitats. We ma y hope that. his timely 
call to the botanical chair at the University of Glaagow will nals 
increased facilities for this kind of wor Professor Balfour (fil 
has examined at Paris the materials on which Gaudichaud founded 
thirteen new genera, and he reduces them all to Pandanus, along 
with two genera added b y DeVriese. 
Notes on the eh wa Tree (Bassia latifolia), by E. Lockwood. 
A tree of India, argely planted in Bengal, and which “may be 
called a fount o G Pod, wine and oil, to the inhabitants of 
the country in oe It is the corolla of this tree 
which is eaten as 3 food and Picex ver a spirit is distilled. h 
ssed. 
vytows oo of Hapoudicak. by Rs or a 
fifty-one species are characterized: the three related genera give 
a dozen more 
Observations on Hemileia vastatrix, the so-called Coffeeleaf 
Disease, by the Rev. R. Abbay. With two plates, containing five 
illustrations of the ee. 
Notes on Euphorbiacec, b George Bentham. An account of 
The si 
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