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Fungi-have been noticed and commended in this Journal. The fifth 
century is equally interesting and full. Perhaps the proof-reading of the 
letter-press, or the niceties of the typography have not been so heedfully 
attended to as could be desired; but we must not be over nice or too 
critical. We are truly grateful for what Mr. Ravenel has done, and hope 
that his strength and patience will still hold out through as many more 
centuries of Hungi Caroliniani. A. G, 
2. Uber Polyembryonie und Keimung von Ceelebogyne : ein Nachtrag 
zu der Abhandlung iiber Parthenogenesis bet Pflanzen, von A. Brawn. 
(Aus, Abhandl. der K. Akad. Wissenschaft, Berlin, 1859.) Berlin, 1860.— 
oceupies 263 quarto pages, and is illustrated by six plates. It discusses 
in great detail not only polyembryony, but many recondite incidental. 
questions arising out of parthenogenesis. The principal direct, a 
of embryos as it occurs in this case, and in orange seeds, where 1e 
flowers are hermaphrodite, indicates, not superfluous impregnation, but 
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