Information on Cyclamen and other plants.
Identification of some plants.
"Bloom".
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Information on Cyclamen and other plants.
Identification of some plants.
"Bloom".
CD gives his opinion on how the physiological laboratory at Kew should be equipped. It would be a pity if the laboratory were not supplied with as many good instruments as their funds could provide.
WTT-D’s statement perverted by Times [4 May 1878, p. 6, on WTT-D’s Royal Institution lectures on vegetable morphology].
S. H. Vines’s work on light inhibition of Phycomyces hyphae ["The influence of light upon the growth of unicellular organs" (1878), Arb. Bot. Inst. Würzburg 2 (1882): 133–47] suggests heliotropism in green plants is independent of, and more primitive than, photosynthesis.
Heliotropism in aerial roots.
Frank Darwin’s work.
Name of plant: Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. = Caladium esculentum, Hort. Vent.
Sends specimens.
Sensitive plants.
Sends specimens of Commelyna.
The amphicarpic habit.