103 
Flora Ottawaensis—Additions, 1885. (Trans. Ottawa Field Nat. 
Club, ii, p: 363:) 
Nineteen species of Phanerogamia, additional to those record- 
ed in previous lists, are enumerated. 
Florida Fungi—Notes on, No, 12.—W. W. Calkins. (Journ, My- 
col. itp, 46 } 
Fungi—New Species of.—J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart. (Journ. 
Mycol., iii., pp. 41-45. 
Nineteen new species are described. 
Fungi—The Use of English Names for.—C. E. Bessey. (Amer. 
Nat., xxi., pp. 264, 265.) 
Professor Bessey warmly advocates the use of English names 
for the Fungi, at least those which are familiar as pests. 
Apropos of popular names, a funny review may be found in 
the Journal of Botany (xxv., pp. 120-121) of a ‘‘ Text-book of 
British Fungi,” by W. D. Hay, the index being given in popular 
names which recall “those of some of Dickens’ characters, if the 
following may be taken as examples: Wrinkletwig, Jellysprout, 
Thimblefinger, and Rootingshank.”’ 
‘Grasses of North America, for Farmers and Students.—W. J. 
Beal, Michigan Agr. College, Vol. 1. 
This is the most extensive work on Grasses that has been 
undertaken in this country. The first volume is an 8vo of 457 
pages, divided into 17 chapters. The first chapter is one of 40 
pages, on the structure, form and development of grasses, giving 
minute details of the roots, culms, leaves, sheaths, bracts, flowers, 
etc., with many illustrations to show the tissues and microscopic 
structure. Then follow three chapters on the power of motion in 
leaves, on plant growth and composition, on plant affinity, on the 
botanical characters of the order Graminez, its economic impor- 
tance, and directions for collecting, studying and preserving 
grasses. These chapters will mainly be of interest to the special 
" student. 
Then follows a chapter on “ Native Grazing Lands,” com-— 
prising sketches of the grass vegetation of the native prairies and 
pastures of the west and southwest, including parts of Mexico. _ 
These five chapters form the first hundred pages of the work. 
