. Botanical gazette. Plants. The arrangement of the parts of the flower may be seen in Fig. 7. The buds are easily attainable in spring and it seeirn to me could be profitably used in the class room in comparison with the hibernacula of ligneous Foerste, Dayton, The Lio-nified Snake from Brazil. It will be remembered that in the December Gazette a brief notice was given of what was described as being a lignified reptile. A tolerably full account of this phenomenon was given in the Popular Science Monthly and Torrey Bulletin for November, the account being the reproduction of one publish
. Botanical gazette. Plants. The arrangement of the parts of the flower may be seen in Fig. 7. The buds are easily attainable in spring and it seeirn to me could be profitably used in the class room in comparison with the hibernacula of ligneous Foerste, Dayton, The Lio-nified Snake from Brazil. It will be remembered that in the December Gazette a brief notice was given of what was described as being a lignified reptile. A tolerably full account of this phenomenon was given in the Popular Science Monthly and Torrey Bulletin for November, the account being the reproduction of one published in the French La Nature of last April. This account comes with all the authority of M. Olivier and the Botanical Society of France. It seems that the piece of wood containing the specimen is the property of Senor Lopez Netto, Brazilian Minister to the United States, who first took it to France but has it now in this country. After running the gauntlet of the scientists of Rio de Janeiro and the Botanical Society of France it has remained for our keen-sighted and quick- witted veteran botanist, Dr. Gray, to call in question its genuine- ness. Alas for the phenonenon that is not sure of its foundations when Dr. Gray lays his heavy hand upon it! Hear what he has to -say about this latest "snake story": '"Through the kindness of the Brazilian Minister, we have seen 1 Am. Jour. Sci. Jan. 1883, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hanover, Ind. : J. M. Coulter
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