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272 Scientific Intelligence. 
we propose the word phylion, plural phylla, as eve 
ient and serviceable,—in this following the analogy of phyton ab 
ready appropriated for the integer of the axis plus the phyllon ot 
phylla it bears. 
At this moment we receive Nos. 44 to 47 inclusive. The most 
of dimorphic and frimorphic plants; and on the specific differences 
between the primrose and. the cowslip, with proof of the Re: 
Théorie de la Feuille, par M. Casmir Dz Caxporis © 
short, very interesting article in the Archives des Sciences © 
Bibliotheque Universelle of Geneva for May, 1868, and sepa 
issued. A new study of the development and arrangemen 
concludes that, as a matter of fact, the vascular bundles are ily that 
on the same general plan in leaf and axis, and theoretically 
n 
velopment of that side, 1 this will not be generally compre 
d ithout some details, which we cannot now enter fe and. 
d prefer to formulate these ideas somewhat different opel 
identify the leaf, not with a branch or secondary axis, nor Pt tion, 
axis at all, but to regard it as the expanded termite free 
or portion, of each integer of axis (internode), 4 ¢» 
The provision in the vascular systems for very various ney 
developments, posterior or facial ‘as well as lateral, is mter h thus 
worked out and applied to deduplication or chorisis, — yesti- 
gets new support from organogeny ; and the application pe of 
the Rose and the stamen and A. & 
interesti 
