154 Scientific Intelligence. 
structure plays an important part, and is duly attended to. It has 
well been said that this can be made clear and explicit only by 
means of figures ; but figures in sufficient number to be of much 
account would greatly increase the size and enhance the pi of 
an work. A hand-book like this must do without them .G 
Hymenomycetes Europei, sive Epicriseos Systematis Myos 
logiet: editio altera; scripsit Er1as Fries (Sumptibus auctoris). 
powers pce e judgment appear to be pea unabated 
The full index fills nai 50 pages. 
Eubea, by Count Saporta, a paper contributed to the Ann. Set. 
de ? Keole Normale Pisses ser. 2, t. 2. wo main interest lies 
Cussonia, Myrie Pachiele acne: &c., of the e types, and 
Encephalartos, the first fossil Oycadea clearly nade out as of an 
existing genus 20 1s, moreover, Glyptostrobus Huro, 
of Heer ch passes insensibly into the existing representative, 
G. heterophyllus and a Sequoia (Fournalii), which 
so closely approaches S. sempervirens of California, “ que 
ne saura it marquer aucune divergence sensible entre ces per 
espéce 
an ‘ita cé.—The mace of nutmeg, once taken as the type oF ae 
arillus, was, a g00 ile ago, distinguished as a aréllode, or false 
whi 
aril, by Pl anchon, on finding that it developed from the arya 
pyle, while a true aril is a growth from the hilum or summit © 
the funiculus. Hooker and Thomson’s statement, that the mace 
develops from both the micropyle and the hilum, has been ¢o% 
firmed by Baillon (Comptes Rendus, 78, p. 779, shots in Rev. 
Bibliogr. of Bull. Bot. Soe. France, Le: Pah The consequence 4 
that the distinctions ater arillus and arillode, caruncle av 
strophiole become not exactly superfluous, but ae 
wa Pir te 
un- 
papers in the Fab Rendus, t. 78, 1874, of which a ful 
clear abstract is given in the Revue Bibliographique, iad ¢ 
occupying six pages. ( 
rt at ee Moeeriper’s name was petprisies Mag? 
gridge in the January number, p. 69. He was we ral i 
grandson of Dillwyn of Swansea ; and so his taste for snaps 
tory came by inheritance. 
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