. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. rs ; i, the point of disarticulation of the falsestamens; c, seciiou across the female flower ; H,stigma : I, stamen, with two perianth scales at the base ;K, ovule; L, pollen and raphides, magnified 160diameters. THE ROYAL SOCIETY. L>N the jOth ult. the anniversary meeting of theRoyal Society was held in accordance with the terms these organisms are far more favourable than arethose of lands a long way to the southward. Theflora of the series of channels between So° and 83° N ,the shores of which
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. rs ; i, the point of disarticulation of the falsestamens; c, seciiou across the female flower ; H,stigma : I, stamen, with two perianth scales at the base ;K, ovule; L, pollen and raphides, magnified 160diameters. THE ROYAL SOCIETY. L>N the jOth ult. the anniversary meeting of theRoyal Society was held in accordance with the terms these organisms are far more favourable than arethose of lands a long way to the southward. Theflora of the series of channels between So° and 83° N ,the shores of which have been botanised by the ofhcersof the Polar expedition, have yielded upwards ofseventy flowering plants and Ferns, which is a muchgreater number than has been obtained from a similararea among the polar islands to the south-westward,and is unexpectedly large. All are from a muchhigher latitude than has elsewhere been exploredbotanically, except the islets ofl the extreme north cfSpitzbergen. The species are, with two single excef-tions, all Greenlandic. Spitzbergen, altogether to the. Fig. 136.—carludovica drudei. C. latifolia, Ruiz and Pavon; C. Liboniafia, Uort.;C. microcephala, Ilort.; C. macropoda, Klotsch ;C. palmata, Ruiz and Pavon j C. plicata, Hort.; , Ilort.; S. subacaulis, Poiteau. Lemaire,///. Ilort. 1S55, mentions some others which are notyet in cultivation. They may be arranged in two groups according asthey have twining stems or are acaulcEcent (with verycontracted stemj), and then again according as theleaves are two-iobed or palmately divided. Our pre-sent species differs from all that wc know of in thecylindrical spathe ; but it is certainly very like , so far as the leaves are concerned. Most ofthe species are fine decorative stove plants, the presentone especially so. C. , moreover, is the plantfrom which the famous Panama hats are made. References.—A, upper end of spadix, with male andfemale flowers, natural size ; b, c,
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