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Fraxinus Americana, \.. R. Pirotta. ‘Sulla struttura del seme 
nelle Oleacee.” (Ann. R. I. Bot. di Roma, i, p. 1-48, t. i-v.) 
Fungi of California.—Notes on some injurious. W. G. Farlow. 
(Proc. Thirty-fourth Meeting A. A. A. S., pp. 300-303; also 
in Proc. Sixth Meeting Soc. Prom, Agric. Science, pp. 29-31.) 
Dr. Farlow found Nicotiana glauca, Grah., afflicted with 
Peronospora Hyoscyami, DeBy.; P. Halstedii,a common species 
of the Eastern States, grows on Madia sativa near San Fran- 
cisco, and P. leptosperma, DeBy., on Artemisia Ludoviciana in 
Southern California. 
Fungi from various Localities—New Species of. J. B. Ellis and 
B. M. Everhart. (Journ. Mycol., ii., pp. 87-89.) 
A new genus, Coscinaria, of the Pyrenomycetes, of a single 
species, C. Langloisit, from near Baton Rouge, La., a variety of 
Dacrymyces corticoides, E. and E., Peziza heteromorpha, Hy- 
poxytlon bicolor and Diatrype Comptonie are characterized. 
Fungous Diseases of Plants. F. Lamson Scribner. (In Rep. 
Comm. Agric., 1885, pp. 76-87, two plates.) 
Germination Studies. E, L. Sturtevant. (Proc. Thirty-fourth 
Meeting A. A. A. S., pp. 287-291.) 
Gopher-root. Dudley W. Adams. (Gard. Month., xxviii., p. 244.) 
A local name in Florida for Chrysobalanus oblongifolius. 
Grasses of Yellowstone National Park. JI.—F. Lamson Scribner 
and Frank Tweedy. (Botan. Gazette, xi., pp. 169-178.) 
This paper is the first part of an enumeration of the Grami- 
nez of the Yellowstone, collected by Mr. Tweedy in 1884 and 
1885. The new forms described are as follows: A/lopecurus occt- 
dentalis ; Stipa comata, Trin. and Rupr., var. zutermedia, and 
Deyeuxia dubia; six of the species enumerated dre not in Coul- 
ter’s Manual. 
Gymnosporangium macropus on Pyrus coronaria. B. D. Halsted. 
(Botan. Gazette, xi., pp. 190, 191.) ; 
Hybridisation and Cross-breeding of Plants. EE. L. Sturtevant. 
(Proc. Thirty-fourth Meeting A. A. A. S., pp. 283-287.) 
Ipomea leptophylla. (Vick’s Ill. Month. Mag., ix., p. 24.) 
The popular name Man-of-the-earth is applied to this spe- 
cies in Colorado as it is in the East to . pandurata. - 
Iris Douglasiana. (Gartenflora, t. 1,222.) 
