418 Scientific Intelligence. - 
The “volatile matter,” which was very small in amount, consists 
of the fragments of the leaf of some plant which the people inten- 
tionally mix with the clay for the aromatic principle it par. 
oily matter of an agreeable odor, but too small in amount to enable 
me to determine its nature, The ines think the earth contains 
cause it is a necessity with them. They have meat and an abun} 
dance of vegetable food. The clay is eaten in ane form of a soup. 
Several pounds are boiled with lily roots in a small quantity of 
water and afterwards strained. The Ainos slides that the soup 
thus prepared is very palatable. 
12. On Conodonts, ete.—The author of the monograph on 
Conodonts, quoted from in the last (April) number, p. 327, is Mr. 
George Jennings Hinde, not Hyde as there printed. 
Il. Borany anp Zoonoey. 
1. Genera Plantarum ad ees Phe imprimis in Pa eh: 
Br 
Kewensibus servata definita; auct. G. NTHAM 
OOKE ol. iii, part I, pp. thi (including pac tit mare 
London, Reev e & Co ., &¢., 1880.—The first of the 
volume was facie in the alae of 1862. In Tabi of Be 
e 
should be understood, however, that no order and no group 0 
tor or monographer. The work has all been done from nature, 
at first hand by the authors themselves,—a thing that has never 
been done before in a Genera Plantarum, since that of Jussieu, 
and hardly then 
This notice may be confined to indication of changes, such as 
may concern North American botany. 
The monochlamydeous (otherwise called apetalous) series of 
orders begins with the Nyctagineew. The leading genus Mirabilis, 
being still allowed to embrace Quamoclidion, their great pr 
was in keeping it clear of Oxybaphus. In this country we had 
regarded the anthocarp as most dierinetive: but the present work 
prefers the form of the perianth and the texture of the involucre, 
but with hardly an improved result. Oe hoes ¥ Tinantia on 
ty we had reduced to suet haavia, is well r 
the Amarantacew, and Achyronychia, 
a second species, one of the new things in the recent 
lection of Parry and Palmer. 
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