ij8 THE PLANT WORLD. 



The Asa Gray Bulletin for April contains a number of articles of 

 interest, among them one on the blights or powdery mildews by 

 Griffiths, a continuation of the studies in plant physiology by Dr. 

 Macdougal, and another on the sensitive stamens in the genus Opuntia, 

 by Dr. Tourney. 



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Dr. N. L. Britton, Director of the New York Botanical Garden, 



recently presented a report relative to the progress of the Garden 

 before the Torrey Botanical Club. From this it appears that the 

 plants now cultivated number 2,110 species. The fruticetum now in- 

 cludes 195 species, and the arboretum 178 species, while the herbarium 

 already includes about 30,000 specimens. At the present rate of 

 progress the Museum building will be ready for occupation by mid- 

 summer. The first volume of the Memories of the Garden will com- 

 prise a " Flora of Montana." 



NOTES A/^D NEWS. , . 



Mr. C. G. Lloyd, of Cincinnati, continues his " Mycological Notes " 

 by the issue of another eight-page pamphlet. It contains notes and 

 descriptions of the small Volvarias and the genus Pluteus as found 

 about Cincinnati. 



From the recently issued report of the Lloyd Museum and Library 

 of Cincinnati, it appears that the botanical section contains 4,916 vol- 

 umes and about 2,000 pamphlets. It is doubtless very rich in works 

 relating to the fleshy fungi. 



" Did you see that great fern?" said a graduate of one of our 

 colleges, where botany is in the regular course, to a friend in the 

 woods. "No! Where?" w^as the reply. They went back to see it, 

 and found a young sumach tree. ^/a7)ics A. Bates, South Royalston, 

 Mass. 



Two American trees — the Paper or Canoe Birch {Betula papyrif- 

 era) and the Red or River Birch {B. uigra) — are described in The 

 Garden iox yidixoh nth. Their more extensive planting in England 

 is urged, and illustrations of the growth of each in the collection of 

 birches at Kew are given. The same number of The Garden contains 

 an article on the Torch Lilies {KnipJiofia), with a colored plate of K. 

 Nelsoni. These so-called lilies often produce scapes from six to 

 eight feet in height, with spikes of orange, vermillion or scarlet flow- 

 ers two feet or more long. When planted in masses the effect is very 

 striking. 



