NOTES. 
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ing the midrib fibro-vascular elements. It possessed almost 
throughout its entire length an axial strand of vascular tissue. 
An epidermis with short hairs extended from leaf to tip. No 
Fig. 8. Tip of section shown in Fig. 7, enlarged. (After Horne.) 
root-cap was observed. It therefore was best considered as an 
anomalous appendicular structure, stimulated as the lower out¬ 
growth, by abnormal conditions of germination. 
M. C. C. 
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NOTES. 
The inference made in the leading paper of the issue by 
Professor Balfour in regard to the physiologically dry character 
of the soil in flower-pots leads me to make the further suggestion, 
which I do not recall to have seen mentioned but which doubtless 
