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IN the Journal of Botany for February, Mr. G. S. Boulger calls attention to the exceedingly loose way in which the term “endosperm” is applied by botanical writers to structures in Angiosperms, in Gymnosperms, and in Vascular Cryptogams which have no real homology with one another.—A very interesting new fern from New Guinea (Polypoditim Annabellæ) is described and figured by Mr. H. O. Forbes, belonging to the small group in which the fertile portion of the frond is only an extension of the lower barren portion.—In this, and in the number for March, Mr. J. G. Baker continues his synopsis of Tillandsieæ, and the editor commences an exceedingly useful alphabetical biographical index of British and Irish botanists no longer living.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 37, 500–501 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037500b0
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