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Title: Journal of botany, British and foreign
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Trimen, Henry, 1843-1896 Britten, James, 1846-1924 Ramsbottom, John, 1885- Seemann, Berthold, 1825-1871 Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 1865-1938
Subjects: Plants Plants -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Robert Hardwicke
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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W. C. Williajvison, of Owens College, Manchester, com-mmiicated to the Eoyal Society, on the 16th November, his eleventhmemoir on the structure of the fossil plants of the coal measures, asthe Bakerian lectm-e. We see from a local paper that there is danger of the inclosureof the Lizard Common, Cornwall. All interested in oui* westernrarities will be sorry to read this. We think that a strong expressionof the feeling of botanists on the subject should be made, and wouldperhaps have a good effect. Henry Lawson, M.D., died at Cork on October 4th. He was formany years editor of the Popular Science Review, and also conductedthe Monthly ^licroscopical Jom-nal from its commencement tillhis death, which has caused the discontinuance of that periodical. The death is recorded of L. Pfeiffer, at Cassel, aged 72. Hislaborious compilations, especially the Nomenclator botanicus(1874), are most useful to all working botanists. The genusPfeijfera was dedicated to him by Salm-Dyck in 1845. Tab. 194.
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rmr^ J-LWilliamson lith. Miniem Bros imp. ©ttginal Mxtitlt^. SIDE-LIGHTS ON THE STEUCTURE OF COMPOSITES. By Maxwell T. Masters, M.D., F.R.S. (Tab. 194, I.) The specimen of Heleniiwi autitmnale figured at Plate 194 I. hasa double interest, structural and historical; structural in that it iscalculated to throw some light on the conformation and even thehneage of Compositm ; historical in that it illustrates a conditionof things quite analogous to those upon which Linnaeus, in hisnow little-read essay Prolepsis Plantarum (1760), founded someof his deductions. I purpose in the following communication saying a few wordson both these subjects ; and first as to points of structure. Thenormal flower-heads of Helenium autumncde have the ordinarycharacter of the capitula of corymbiferous Composites, but in thepresent instance, in place of each flower, existed a slender stalk,with one or more j)airs of opposite, linear, remote bracts, andterminated by a small flower-head with its involucel and

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