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Prof. Foster. We trust that the appeal will not be neglected by 
our western and southern botanists. 
Ls Botany a Suitable Study for Young Men ?—J. F. A. Adams, 
M.D. From the first number of the Swiss Cross. (Science, 
Feb. 4th, 1887.) 
Jamaica.—Annual Report on the Public Gardens and Plantations, 
1886. 4to., pp. 22. 
Funiperus Sabina x communis. A hybrid between these 
parents is described by Joanne de Csato in Magyar Nové- 
nytani Lapok, vol. x., p. 145. 
Loco-weeds.—Francis H. Snow. (Science, ix., p. 92.) 
In western Kansas the two /oco plants are Osytropis Lam- 
berti, Pursh., and Astragalus mollisimus, Torr.; and it is stated 
that the horse bot-fly deposits its eggs on the leaves of the latter 
and thus causes the disease attributed to the plant. 
Method for Subjecting Living Protoplasm to the Action of Differ- 
ent Liqguids.—G. L. Goodale. (Amer. Journ. Sci., iii., pp. 
144, 145.) 
New Plants from Northern California.—E. L. Greene. (West. 
“Mer: Ocis il: pp., 24, 25-) 
Ribes Marshallit, Mitella diversifolia and M. ovalts are de- 
scribed. 
Nostoc pruniforme.—Remarks on a variety of.—Geo. B. Twitchell. 
(Journ. Cinn. Soc. Nat. Hist., ix., pp. 253-255.) 
Pear Blight (Micrococcus amylovorus.)—J. C. Arthur. (5th Ann. 
Rep. N. Y. Agric. Exp. Station, 1887, pp. 275-289, four 
figures; also pp. 300-315; reprinted in Report of the 
Botanist.) 
An account is given of further observations on this pest, and 
alist of papers published on it is appended. 
Petiolar Glands in some Onagracee.—Thomas Meehan. (Proc. 
Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1886, pp. 349, 350 and Bot. Gaz. xii., 
p. 17.) 
Mr. Meehan remarked that stipules were unknown in Ona- 
grace but that in Ludwigia palustris there are two minute 
conical glands which may represent them. They were also de- 
tected in other species of Ludwigia and Fusstea, but in these _ 
appear petiolar rather than stipular. 
