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Journal of Botany.—The number for February commences with the first part of an important paper by Mr. Thomas Hick on protoplasmic continuity in the Florideæ. The connection of protoplasm from cell to cell has now been established in a number of instances in the vegetable kingdom. It may be seen with very great ease, as described and drawn by Mr. Hick, in the frond of some of the red seaweeds, as Polysiphonia and Callithamnion, without any chemical reagent, except one that causes a slight contraction.—Mr. Carruthers contributes a useful paper on the mode of distinguishing the seed of the sweet vernal grass, Anthoxanthum odoratum, from that of A. Puellii, an annual species with which it is often adulterated by seed-growers.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 29, 443–444 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029443b0
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