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receive the pollen, or whether there is a stigmatic surface between them 
under the disks, or both. But neither of these two species show any 
evidence of being self-fertilized in the bud. In G. tridentata, the spe- 
as already remarked, act functionally as stigmas so, underneath the 
disks and the common origi the three stigmatic processes, I find a 
. Platanthera except that (so far as I have observed, in unexpanded or 
1g 
freshly expanded flowers) it is only very sl ghtly viscid. On application, 
matic surface. The examination of older flowers ma 
e expec 
settle the question. But it is certain that the three linear club-shaped 
ies act as stigm 
as. 
' In a systematic point of view, it is evident that the Ophrydew with 
naked disks need to be studied and arranged anew, upon living plants. 
But the forms cannot be clearly described and correlated until the mor- 
phology and terminology of the parts of the column have been reconsid- 
ered and elucidated. 
ZooLocy.— 
7. Monograph of the Aye-Aye (Chiromys Madagascariensis Cuvier) ; 
by Ricuarp Owen, D.C.L., F.RS., &.— curious animal whiel 
: Buffon assigned it a position in the former 
and in so doing was followed by Cuvier, A inctl 
stated that it “is related to the Quadrumana in more points than one. 
