Botany and Zoology. 469 
6. On the Barringtoniacee, by Joun Miers, F.R.S., ete—An 
elaborate memoir of this group of tropical plants, published in the 
first volume of the new series of the Transactions of the Limmean 
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pared by Gro. Vasny, M.D. Yashington, 1876. 38 pp. 8vo.) 
All agree in awarding great credit to Dr. Vasey for the United 
played, and nstructive. pamphl 
useful in illustrating the exhibition, will still be convenient and 
valuable for reference. ‘As G5 
Morphology of the Carpellary Seales of Conifere.—The true 
of Conifers has been an important 
the limit of tree vegetation on the Sudetic Mountains, is that 
Mohl’s view of the structure of the fruit-scale, based on the nature 
of the double leaf of Sciadopitys, is the correct one. | The 
t of leaves or bracts in Coniferee always are 
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rheir back toward the axis of the inflorescence (the cone) and 
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