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be judiciously reduced or readjusted. These matters could be safely 

 left to a commission, which should include representatives of the lo- 

 cally interested parties, as well as skilled foresters and hydrographers. 

 It is earnestly hoped they will not be entirely abandoned. Forests 

 are a priceless treasure which an hundred years will not restore when 

 they are once destroyed. Let us begin in time and not wait until they 

 are gone before adopting means for their protection. Then it will be 

 too late. 



NOTES A/ND NEV5. 



Dr. Charles R. Barnes has been appointed Professor of Plant 

 Physiology in the University of Chicago. 



The Field Columbian Museum, of Chicago, has accumulated dur- 

 ing two years of active work an herbarium of over 50,000 mounted 

 and classified sheets. 



The genus Carex is the subject of a very interestingly and beauti- 

 fully illustrated article by Mr. Charles F. Saunders in the April num- 

 ber of Godcy's Magazine. 



Mr A. J. Grout reports, in the February number of the American 

 Naturalist, the finding of adventitious buds on the leaves of the Sun- 

 dew, as described by Mr. Jas. A. Graves in the November number of 

 the Plant World. It is curious that the production of new plants 

 from buds on the leaves of old ones should have escaped attention so 

 long. 



Prof. D. P. Penhallow, of McGill University, has just published 

 in the " Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada" (second series, 

 Vol III.), a valuable Rcvieiv of Canadian Botany from 1800 to iSg^. 

 It contains accounts of the botanists, herbaria, botanical gardens and 

 botanical societies, and closes with a bibliography of works and papers 

 devoted to Canadian botany. 



Dr. A. J. Grout has compiled a list of the mosses of Vermont 

 from the collections of such enthusiastic students as Frost, Pringle, 

 Blanchard, Faxon and others. The state is rich in rare and interest- 

 ing mosses, and this list includes 75 genera and about 250 species. 

 Dr. Grout has taken pains to see most of the specimens, and has 

 adapted his keys from those of Dr. Barnes and the Muscologia Gallica 

 to agree with the bifurcating system in use by Dixon, which is so easy 

 to follow. They work out very nicely and will be useful to students 

 of the local flora as well as to others in neighboring states, who should 

 be tempted to emulate Dr. Grout's good example. — E. G. B. 



