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Journal of Botany, August to November.—The most important article in the recent numbers of this magazine is Mr. Charles Bailey's paper on the structure, &c., of Naias graminea, Delile, var. Delilei, Magnus, illustrated with four plates and many woodcuts. This interesting addition to the British flora—first found in 1883 in a canal in Lancashire—is a native of warmer climates, not being indigenous anywhere in Europe, and has probably been introduced with Egyptian cotton. Mr. Bailey gives an exhaustive account of the morphology of its various organs, and especially of its mode of fertilisation. The Naias belongs to a class of plants that may be called “protozoophi-lous,” the pollen being carried to the stigma by aquatic animals of low organisation, in this instance by the currents caused by the rotating cilia of species of Vorticellidæ—Most of the other articles in these numbers are of more limited interest, being topographical papers on the flowering plants or cryptogams of particular districts, or descriptions of new or little-known species.—Additional instalments are also given of Mr. J. G. Baker's synopsis of the genus Selaginella, which is still uncompleted, the species now described amounting to 180.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 31, 70 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031070a0
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