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is e however, that Mr. Smiles will send fuller, material, w when 
xpected, 
the structure will again be investigated. The remainder of this part of 
the Zcones is chiefly devoted to African plants. 
Organization of the Fossil Plants of the Coal-Measures. pe 
W. C. Williamson, and Dr. D. H. Scott, the honorary keeper of the 
Jodrell sprite ink ak = — - an ‘elaborately illustrated article 
on. the minute stru of Calamites, .Calamostachys and 
Sphenophyllum, lately o ng in the Philosophical Transactions 
the Royal Society of London. The leading idea was to elucidate 
the strueture of fossil plants by exact comparison with the structure of 
living A The paper opens with a detailed comparison of the 
primary structure of the stem of Calamites with that of the stem of 
Equisetum, followed by an account of the secondary growth and branch- 
Homosporous and heterosporous species of Calamostachys are 
first rise of the phenomenon of heterospory can be traced. In the 
diseussion on the affinities of Sphenophyllum it is stated that the struc- 
ture is now known throughout with great accuracy, that its position 
still remains an isolated one, and that it is a eryptogamous type not 
represented in the existing flora. The illustrations are exceedingly 
good, especially those reproduced from Mr. George Brebner’s beautiful 
draw ings. 
* scaena 
Himalayan «ulic-la the Kew eos 1894, p. 196, a a note. was 
published Tespeating a Himalayan Rubus cultivated at Kew, that had 
proved of s interest in Queensland. This was Rubus ellipticus, 
Smith (R. flavus, Ham. ). The fruit is of “a pale yellow colour when 
ripe, and possesses the full raspberry flavour with a delightful sub- 
acidity which renders it most palatable.” |The plant has now al 
Garden in the Blue Mountains. The distribution of these temperate 
Himalayan Rubi under cultivation, is a fact of some interest. R. 
biflorus, Ham., a strong rambling ana, with the stem and brane 
white with glaueous bloom grows in the open air at Kew, while Metu 
species the very variable A. lasiocarpus, Smith, with the leaflets hoary 
with white tomentum, flourishes at the Glasnevin Botanie Gardens, In 
Mr. mea ain interesting report for the year 1894, just are it is 
Rubus racemosus, Roxb., whieh he calls the 
* Himstayatt dem Ot has been a success in Jamaica and plants 
have been distributed. Sir Joseph Hooker (Flora 0 yon hors 
ii, s ras gards this species as an extreme form o 
nding to an 
altitude of 7,000 feet in the Sikkim Him agna: is a robust. climber with 
palmately lobed leaves dearly a foot in diameter. There is a specim 
of it in the temperate house at Kew, where its stems, often 40 feet eg 
hang from the gallery. 
