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* So the absence of any classification of the species is no disparagement 
here, assuredly expecting, however, that in due time, Dr. Boot will pro- 
by pound his his matured views respecting the natural arrangement of the eae 
. ‘arex. 
- 2. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Boteny, Vol 
: Il, No. 7, (1858).—Professor Henslow —— a — but interesting 
paper, On a Monstrous development in ‘ 
thought to elucidate the morphology of the pet reecium 
5 em has an article, On the structure of the ovule eae seed- 
, of rie “ its structure at the time of fomering, - et esubnequen 
ehanges through which the primitive or outer vule becomes 
rupaceous in the seed, its principal thickness thot fuming the fleshy coat, 
while a growth of its inner stratum gives rise to the bony coat of the seed. 
eply : 
language of a istinguished investigator, that, leaving ieee to 
determine what is and what is not possible, the ‘business of the naturaligt 
os is to ascertain what is real; and that which is really so will always 
a possible, in spite of all contradiction. And, secondly, that the argument 
in this woase, after all, “as convincing as ion i 
a Euclid ;” because the six : aiid premises (i. €., pine: in them bears 
z directly upon the point), from which the four inferences (called 
were deduced, are not conceded. Wer 
upon hole question turns ; 
with the eae = facts of oe the 
The rem are:—Notes of a 
of Griffith, by Dr. Thomas Thomson; showing that Se pe 
margined fructification allied to Depa 
— or bunch of fruits of the Fig-Banana, producing two pao fruit 
e same inflorescence. On four Varieties of British Plants, by 
Toba ogg, Esq.; and a part of Dr. F. Miiller’s Botanical Report on the as 
North-Australian Expedition under the command of Mr. Gregory. ne 
Thankful for what we have, we could still wish that the resources of 
-the Linnzean Society were such as to enable it to ex soe than it 
does, an 8 Be oe ara mesg 
sek a Flo ae : A. @. 
2%, Akg ie ee nee Onin, by 
Mr. C. Wright, with Characters of the New Species, by Prof. Linpuzy, 
. (from Ann. 2 and Mag. Nat. Hist., May, 1838).—It ap; appears that of the 
.80 species of Orchids i guhered by Mr. Wright in his recent visit to Cuba, 
- 21 are novelties there aracterized by Prof. Lindley), and several others 
SERIES, 
aging - T6—JULY, 1858. 
