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anthers one-celled by confluence: indeed Prof. Oliver has found them ~ 
in some specimens of our North American Mistletoe, P. og SCENS. 
1125 of Fendler’s Venezuela collection is found to belon to Peoppigie 
genus, Antidaphne. The a or scales subtending Heath in the 
genus Lepidoceras of Dr. Hooker are found to persist as the apex of a 
true lamina of a leaf, which is ssh aah Ps by a growth of 
its base in a very curious mannner. The scale does duty first as a braet, 
and iheviueda; by a basal growth, the insertion or papsidolen portion of this 
scale nis eg agree leaf. The true Loranthaceous genera here armit- 
Wrig tit of Ghee, one of Mr. C, Wright's ee aa be in oe 
be te type of a thirteenth genus, G. 
5. sare a in Plants, —A ed Case of Parthenogeni 
sown, ta besa is now a vigorous stock so young plants.” In 1862 the 
same plant flowered again, and during a month produced only pistillifer- 
8 flowers. “From the opening of “the first flower-bud until the last 
withered flower dropped off, not a day passed without a careful examina- 
being made by me for the traces of a stamen in the flowers, but 
without finding one.” ‘The fruit set from many of the ovaries; but the 
Structure and Fertilization of certain Orchids.—In this Jounal for 
N olemiber, 1862, I gave some notes on the arrangements of the genitalia, 
&e. of most of our Orchids of the Northern States of the genus Platan- 
thera or Haben naria. One common _— which was not met with last 
summer in season, I have now glanced at, viz., 
Platanthera jae. or Habenaria flava Gray. This, although ascer- 
tained by me to be the Orchis flava of Linneus, so ill deserves its spe- 
cific name, which I restored to it, (the flowers being in fact green, in 
of yellow) that, notwithstanding — one would like to see it 
Mulilenberg’s name of virescens, ln might well e rai be al 
‘on the ground that the Linnean name is a “ nomen 
As respeets its arrangements for fertilization, I had | anticipated that 
this would be an interesting species, on account of the strong protuber- 
ance or crest on the base of its hiliaan, This narrow _ nasiform 
protuberanee projects upwards and backwards, so as almost to touch the = 
column between the two disks or glands of the stigma hed eer bein 
the two cups or deep grooves which contain them), and therefore - ee 4 
over and dividing the orifice of the spur. The anther 0 are paral pee 
‘but set at a little distance apart: they lie almost in line with the label 
im, pare yophamer deat Seep the fed is protberanee ; 
are: ree , rg et ‘ : 
