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Fungi from various Localities—New Species of —J. B. Ellis and 
B. M. Everhart. (Journ. Mycol., iii., pp. 116-118.) 
Eight new species described. 
Fungi of the Pacific Coast, V—H. W. Harkness. (Bull. Cal. 
Acad. Sci., ii., pp. 438-447.) 
A long list of species from various parts of California and 
Nevada. Two new forms are described. 
Gleditschia triacanthos. (Garden, xxxii., 1887, p. 304; illus- 
trated.) 
Grindelia glutinosa in Wisconsin.—W.M. Wheeler. (Science, 
X., p. 180.) 
Reports a single plant growing along a railway. 
Hypocreacee—Additions to.—J. B. Ellis and B.. M. Everhart. 
Journ. Mycol. iii., pp. 113-116.) 
Liriodendron tulipifera. (Garden, xxxii., p. 262.) 
Manttoba—Notes on the Botany of.—R. Miller Christy, F.L.S. 
(Journ. Bot., xxv., pp. 271-276 and 290-301.) 
A general account of the floral characters of the province. 
Melanconis dasycarpa.—J. B. Ellis. (Journ. Mycol., iii., p. 118.) 
Mr. Ellis suspects this species to be the same as JZ. Everhartit. 
Notes concerning Development and Fertilization of Plants.— 
John Kruttschnitt. (Papers New Orleans Acad. Sci., i., pp. 
40-52.) 
A paper chiefly remarkable for its surprises and its mistakes 
in spelling and typography; the author has not yet been able to 
find pollen tubes entering the micropyle, and describes the de- 
velopment of a fungus (?) from a Gregarine ! 
Ostrich Fern (Onoclea Struthiopteris)\—The Development of the.— 
Douglas Houghton Campbell, Ph.D. (Memoirs Boston Soc. 
Nat. Hist., iv., pp. 17-52, plates 4-7.) 
This valuable paper comes as the successful thesis for the 
“Walker Prize Essay’ competition of 1886, and the author is to 
be congratulated for his work and his reward. The first page 
gives an abstract of the contents, and we quote therefrom: 
“The presence of a third coat in the spore. The marked 
dicecism displayed by the prothallia. Formation and develop- 
ment of the apical cell of the prothallium. Continuity of the 
protoplasm in the cells of the prothallium. Development of the 
