1877.) Zoölogy. 491 
Trimen’s Journal of Botany. June. W. G. Smith, A new species of 
Xerotus X. sanguineus. J. G. Baker, New Ferns from the Andes of 
Quito. A. W. Bennett, Review of the British species of Polygala. 
E. M. Holmes, The Cryptogamic Flora of Kent. Several extracts and 
excellent abstracts, together with a notice of the Botanical Garden at 
Copenhagen, and the titles of articles in botanical journals close the 
number. 
Flora, No. 13. Dr. George Winter, Lichenological notices (contin- 
ued in No. 14). F. v. Thümen, Notes on “Mycotheca Universalis.” 
No. 14. Emil Godlewski. Is the product of assimilation in Musaceæ 
(the Banana tribe) oil or starch? (Answer, “ Everything shows that 
the product of assimilation in the species of Musa and Strelitzia is not 
oil, as Briosi states, but starch, just as in other plants.”) Nylander. 
Additions to European Lichenography (continued in No. 15). No. 15. 
M. Gandoger, New Roses in South Eastern France, Fritz Miiller, a 
Letter from Brazil (noticed elsewhere). 
Botanische Zeitung, No. 21. G. Kraus, The Occurrence of Inulin 
in other plants than Composite. (The writer has detected Inulin in the 
allied orders Campanulacew and Lobeliacew [which, by the way, have 
been united as tribes under one order by Bentham and Hooker], in 
Goodeniaceæ and Stylidex.) No. 22. Dr. Brefeld, On the Entomoph- 
thore (an order of Fungi) and their allies (continued in 23). No. 
23, Dr. G. Haberlandt, On the Origin of Chlorophyll Granules in the 
Germ: Leaves of Phaseolus vulgaris. No. 24, conclusion of the preced- 
ing article by Haberlandt. “TI believe that I have now shown that true 
chlorophyll granules can arise, as v. Mohl pointed out, by the envelop- 
ing of starch granules with colored protoplasma.” No. 25, Professor . 
Schenk, On the Relations of Structure of Fossil Plants. Reports of 
Societies. 
ZOOLOGY.! 
Tae Brancnrxz or tHE Empryo Prea.—In Nature for April 5, 
1877, is an interesting article, author not stated, upon The Development 
of Batrachians without Metamorphosis. On page 492 occurs the fol- 
lowing passage: “The young of Pipa Americana [the Surinam toad] 
come forth from the eggs laid in the cells on their mother’s back, tailless 
and perfectly developed. In them, likewise, no one has yet detected 
branchiæ.” Two points here made are not in accordance with the ob- 
Servations of the late Prof. Jeffries Wyman, as recorded in the American 
rnal of Science and Arts, 1854, second series, vol. xvii. pp. 369-374. 
Wyman states that the eggs are transferred by the male to the back 
of the female, which presents “a uniform surface throughout ;” “ their 
Presence excites increased activity in the skin, it thickens, and is grad- 
ually built be around each egg, which it at length incloses in a well-de- 
fined pouc 
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