Botany and Zoology. 129 
mann also contributes an interesting peer of the structure and m 
ology of Melumbium luteum ; a note on the nature of the pulp in the 
fruit of Cactee, showing that the pulp ponies to the funiculi of the seed 
or its appendages ; also on the pulp of wpa: and gooseberries, which he 
finds “to consist of the arillus and of the modified epidermis of the testa ;” 
a considerable paper entitled “ Additions a the Cactus-Flora of the terri- 
tory of the United States,” mostly from the collections of Dr. Newberry 
(in the Colorado.Expedition, 1857-58) and of Henry Engelmann in prays 
Simpson’s Expedition to explore emigrant routes into Utah. On P 
aristata, a new species of Pine discovered by Dr. C. C. Parry in ate 
Alpine ~~ of — Territory, and on some other Pines of the 
ocky Mountains. P. aristata was probably confounded by the late Dr. 
James with ‘his P. flexilis, but was distinguished by Dr. Parry. Both are 
five-leaved species, but they belong to two very different sections. They 
are now well cleared up by Dr. Engelmann; and, as see roaring 
by Dr. Parry in considerable quantity have germinated in this ountry 
_ and in England, they may hereafter be familiar. Dr. Engelmann appends 
to this paper a revision of the-character of the genera of Abietinee, in a 
somewhat new arrangement, adopting as genera, 1. Abies Link. (non 
 Linn.), the Balsam Firs; 2. Tsuga, Hemlock Spruce; 3. Lariz, (these 
bd 
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and 5. ea Link, non Li inn., the heme nga in another group; and 
Dr. E 
q paver on on “ New Species of Gentiana from the Alpine regions of the Roc 
_ Mountains,” with some aoa asic of other species, &c. The plates, from 
t5tot 11, mens illustrate Pinus aristata, Gentiana Wislizeni, G. he- 
q epala, ilis, G. — var. and G. prosirata, G. Parryi, and 
| &. jarbellata, a Mane man 
The Enumeration of the Species of Plants collected oy - Dr. o. ¢. 
al and Messrs. rekege: Hall and J. P. Harbour, during the Sum 
and Autumn of 18 1862, on or near the Rocky Mountains in Colorado Pere 
_ ritory, lat. 39 wae is published in the Proceedings of the Academy of 
_ Natural Sciences, lustre elphia, under date of March 24, 1863. The 
collection, whi wo has already been mentioned in this Journal, proves to 
be <b interes A. G. 
3. Paullinia ‘sorbilis and its products—Mr. Archer, in a paper read 
to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, April 9, states that from the large 
> amount bean 5:07 per soy as agains! ood black a, which 
4 An Joen. So1—8 Ther cece Ral ot. XXXVI, No. 106.—JULy, ae 
