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by a brief account of the haticgrece™ of the rag te a under his 
charge. G. Volkens has a long article on the relations between 
the habit and anatomical races in the organs ‘of vegetation of 
plants. F. Joho Mb esr ape = the biology of floral and extra- 
floral show-apparatus, i. e. colored parts of or near flowers. 
E. Loew fills a large an of is velihine with his observ etek tie upon 
insect-visitation of blossoms of plants in the open ground of the 
Botanic Garden at Berlin. K. Schumann nai the ev. 
mology of the names and the history of Cloves; also the terato- 
logy of Gagea pratensis. M. Fiinfstiick has an ifoarated paper on 
the development of Lichenes. Th. Wenzig gives a new synopsis 
of American Oaks. W. Schwacke writes upon the Curare arrow- 
poison of the Tecuna Indians, and gives a sketch of the flora of 
Manéos in Brazil. ‘I. Urban brings together some Miscellanea 
upon plants of the Berlin garden. K. Prantl gives a systematic 
arrangement and notes upon the geographical distribution of the 
Ophioglossew. G. 
5. Origin of Cultivated Plants. By ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE. 
New York, D. Appleton & Co. 18 ae ae 468, 12mo, (The Inter- 
national Scientific Seri ries ibe xlviii.—We gave an elaborate 
the ee ers of Albany, New York, with two plates; : 
Brecuer (36th Rep. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist.).—The abnor 
Shell having the first three +elitions normal, and Gs spiral re- 
versed for the last volution; a carination of a volutions and 
narrowing of the upper part ‘of the e aperture in Somatogyrus 
See Say; the last two volutions free in Valvata tricarinata 
Say ; nistral form in ia guibead exacutus Say; and abnormal 
fiir ee in several Uni 
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to, with several plates. Washington, 1884.—This second 
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