CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Ward, H. M. — Recent Researches on the Parasitism of Fungi . . i 
Eriksson, J. — On the Vegetative Life of some Uredineae ... 55 
Maslen, A. J. — The Relation of Root to Stem in Calamites. With 
Plates I and II, and a Figure in the Text 6 1 
Czapek, F. — The Anti-ferment Reaction in Tropistic Movements bf 
Plants 75 
Peirce, G. J.— The Dissemination and Germination of Arceuthobium 
occidentale, Eng. With Plates III and IV . . . . 99 
Sargant, Miss E., and Robertson, Miss A.— The Anatomy of the 
Scutellum in Zea Mais. With Plate V 115 
Salmon, E. S. — Further Cultural Experiments with ‘ Biologic Forms’ 
of the Erysiphaceae 125 
Vines, S. H.— The Proteases of Plants (II) 149 
NOTES. 
Fritsch, F. E. — Algological Notes. No. 6 : The Plankton of some 
English Rivers . . 163 
Parkin, J. — On a brilliant Pigment appearing after Injury in Species 
of Jacobinia (N. O. Acanthaceae). (Abstract) .... 167 
Scott, D. H. — On the Structure and Affinities of Fossil Plants from 
the Palaeozoic Rocks. — V. On a new Type of Sphenophyllaceous 
Cone (Sphenophyllum fertile) from the Lower Coal-measures. 
(Abstract) 168 
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