NOTES AND NEWS. 
Prof. C. Sargent of Harvard, accompanied by Mr. W. M. 
Canby, are on this Coast, ee at trees for the benefit of the 
‘* Silva of North America.” They have visited San Diego, San 
Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto, Monterey, etc., and go from here 
to Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, etc., returning to the East by 
way of Arizona, where they will make investigations. 
JACKSONIA, R. Br. ‘‘I am sorry to find that I was in 
error in supposing (p. 348) that no new name had been sub- 
stituted for /acksonia R. Br. Prof. E. L. Greene has replaced it 
by /iptomeris, a name under which Turczaninow described a 
_ Single species referred by Bentham to /acksonia: and proceeds to 
enumerate thirty-five species under this title. With the aid of 
the printer he contrives to invent two fresh names: P. ‘ dilalata’ 
for J. dilatata Benth.; and P. ‘ purpuascens’ for J. purpurascens 
Muell. It is to be regretted that some more useful or at least 
less mischievous outlet cannot be found for the Se ae 
energy of which Prof. Greene seems to be possessed.’’—JAm 
Brirren in Jour. Bot. xxxi, 274, (December, 1893). 
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Brandegee have taken up permanent 
residence in San Diego, Calif.: partly for the more agreeable 
climate and partly to be nearer the chosen field of Mr. Brande- 
gee’s botanical labors. They take with them their excellent 
botanical library, and private herbarium. 
Prof. Douglas H. Campbell goes to Europe at the end of the 
term to spend six months in botanical researches. 
With this number completing the fourth volume, the publica- 
tion of Zoe will cease for the present. For a journal of its age 
and character it has received good support, and closes with a 
steadily increasing subscription. It has been, however, too 
serious a drain upon the time of the editor, and interferes materi- 
ally with work of more present importance. 
