VOL. XXIII. OCT. 1909. NO. 273. 



THE 



BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. 



CONTENTS. 



G. Koidzumi : — Notes on Japanese Rosaceae 175 



T. Kakai :— Plantae novae Asiatics 185 



Articles in Japanese : — 



T. Nakai : — Japanese Polygonacca; : a Historical Review and an 

 Analytical Key to Genera and Species. (With PL. XII.) . . . . ("i) 



Current Literature : — 



Alice M. Ottley, The Development of the Gainetophytes and Fcrtil- 

 ilization in Junipcrus communis and Junipcrus vcrjLfiniana. — 

 Overton, On the organization of the Nuclei in the Pollen Mother 

 Cells of certain Plants, with especial Reference to the Permanence 

 of the Chromosomes. — Digby, Observation on "Chromatin Bodies" 

 and their Relation to the Nucleolus in Galtonia candicans, Dcscn. (430) 



Miscellaneous : — 



A List of Plants collected in Hang Chow. — On the quantitative Distribution of the 

 Plancton. — On the Origin of Life on the Glol>e.— .Some noteworthy Plants and 

 Corrections*— Personals, New-, etc (433) 



Proceedings oe the Tokyo Botanical Society. 



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