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Contents. 
Groom, P. — The Evolution of the Annual Ring and Medullary Rays of Quercus. With 
Plates LXXIV-LXXVI. 
Thompson, W. P.—On the Origin of the Multiseriate Ray of the Dicotyledons. With Plates 
LXXVII and LXXVIII. 
Tabor, R. J.—The Leaf Buds of Archytaea alternifolia. With Plate LXXIX 
Butler, E. J.—On Allomyces, a new Aquatic Fungus. With Figures 1-18 . , 
Chambers, H. S.—The Vestigial Axillary Strands of Trichomanes javanicum, Bl. With 
Plate LXXX and five Figures in the Text. 
Benson, M.—New Observations on Botryopteris antiqua, Kidston. With Plates LXXXI- 
LXXXIII and three Figures in the Text. 
Stevens, W. C.—On the Development of the Sporangia and Spores of Aneimia Phyllitidis. 
With Plates LXXXIV and LXXXV. 
Kemp, H. P.—Note on the Action of Strychnine upon some Somatic Cells .... 
Irving, A. A. — The Effect of Chloroform upon Respiration and Assimilation. With twenty- 
four Figures in the Text. 
VThgday (Sykes), M. G. —The Female Inflorescence and Ovules of Gnetum africanum, with 
Notes on Gnetum scandens. With Plates LXXXVI and LXXXVII and sixteen 
Figures in the Text . .. 
Summers, F.—On the Occurrence of Lens-cells in the Epidermis of Mesembryanthemum 
pseudotruncatellum. With ten Figures in the Text . . . . « 
Stoward, F. — A Research into the Amyloclastic Secretory Capacities of the Embryo and 
Aleurone Layer of Hordeum with Special Reference to the Question of the Vitality 
and Auto-depletion of the Endosperm. Part II. 
NOTES. 
Dummer, R. — Grape Sugar as an Excretion in Platycerium. With two Figures in the Text 
Correction by Professor Bower . .. 
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