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statement that the anthers of Fewéllea are unilocular, although 
Hoo u 
the case of #. Moorei, figured in the Botanical Magazine, ane 
he does not there generalize the boaarvabion: is being the 
bh ame it would have been better to have adopted it practi- 
cally as well as theoretically, a“ “constructed the generic char- 
acters accordingly, instead of o e old model of “ Reanitid 3, 
anthera una unilocularis, stbrds ‘bilocularis,” more conv enient 
thotigh it be. 
e geographical distribution of a family at once so peculiar, 
so wide-spread and so considerable in numbers and generic diver- 
sity (79 genera and 600 species), might raise interesting specula- 
tions. It must an ancient family; for the ‘aie pa genera, 
as well as the apucied, are circumscribed in range, and only six or 
seven are common to the Old and New World, except as 9 diffused 
under human agency. 
We note one generic name to be changed, not because of the 
somewhat bizarre fancy of Mr. C. B. Clarke in naming two genera 
of the same order in honor of the same person, 7. ¢., Warea and 
Edgaria, but because the Cru ring genus Warea, always of 
e 
s Vegetable Kingdom down ee the new Genera Plan- 
aii inclusive. The latter work is followed in the reference of 
Megarrhiza to Echinocystis, as ed os osed by Decaisne, although 
meanwhile the singular germination has been made k nown, con- 
A Megane ato crasso.’ ‘Sie dium a. sehtaeaatise havile 
entified with Ticeratia of A. Richard, and the genus 
comes the t pe o its a new genus. wiish is Abdivatea to that capital 
botanist, Maxim S. Lindheimeri is therefore Maximowtczia 
Lindheimeri, Teiannieerné becomes a section of an older genus 
Cayaponia of Mauso, and our 4 Bel is accordingly C. Boykinit, 
ogn. Naudin’s Echinopepon is by Cogniaux also absorbed into 
Lchinocystis (which we should restrict to the original species), 
and so the Elaterium Coulteri, EF. Wrightii, etc., are here trans- 
ferred: to the first section of the latter genus The West Indian 
Rech laciniatus, L., takes in 8, ae Gray, not Willd., nor 
ctore te. ; par ‘ALPHOR 
Lavatvke, President de la Société Nationale @Agrioulture | de 
France, &c.—The collection of trees and shrubs at Segrez (a few 
