Botany and Zoology. 299 



Journal of the Lh,n<o„ S,,,-hty ; Botany.— The two most 

 nt numbers, 120 and 121, issued last summer, besides numer- 

 ntaining the Inst 

 . ..' the last investigations, of Charles 

 Darwin, viz: his paper on '■'•The Action of Carbonate of Am- 

 monia on tin 'Ilouts •;/' ■•■< rtahi Plant*:' and' "The Action of Car- 

 bonate of Amnion in on Chin, ■<.,,/, ,fU-bo<lies ; which were read on 

 the 6th and the 16th of March, little more than a month before 

 his death. The two papers arc charact- rbtic specimens of the 

 acute and painstaking researches, suggested by seemingly casual 

 observations in former years, the following up of which became 

 the chosen occupation of his later days. As they fill nearly fifty 

 pages of the Journal, we cannot here undertake an analysis of 



i of these numbers likewise contains Francis Darwii 

 paper On the connection between Geotropism and Growth, a con- 

 vincing reply to some criticisms by Weisner, made by means of 

 new experiments. 



In the last number B. Daydon Jackson, the Secretary of the 

 Society, has an article On the Occtm-enc, of Sinyh Florets on the 

 Rootstock of (Jatananche lnt»a (a Cichoraceous Composita), a 

 discovery of M. Battandier in Algeria. A note at the close states 

 that he had just accidentally ascertained that Salisbury knew of 

 these radical solitary flowers, and gives a reference to his Prodro- 

 mus (lTOf.j. Mr. Jueksoi! adverts'also to an analogous ease, that 

 of the American and much of the Asiatic (but not the European) 

 S.--1, •}>,!!< supinnt, the solitary radical dowers of which were dis- 

 covered here by Mr. Morong, and announced in this Journal. 

 South African specimens in Kew herbarium also -how these 

 peculiar flowers. 



Sir Joseph Hooker also characterizes I'tyO'a, <i hoc G< onix <f 

 Il"h/„ ,--},ro,l,i, ■;,,,< I'luntx, Malayan . l/^ry^/c </, which is appro- 

 priately dedicated to the accomplished and efficient Assistant 

 Director of Kew Gardens, T. Thiselton Dyer. H. Mar-hall 

 Ward, who went to Ceylon for the purpose, here publishes 

 Researches on the Life-} ii.it <>r<i <>f Ilr,n»hhi_ roshitri,<\ th< Fimyns 

 of the Coffee-leaf disease, an elaborate paper, of 36 pages. 



(2) the relations 



