30 THE PLANT WORLD. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Shnibhv Siiiulew { Roriduhi <li'i,t<if(i) orows into a bush nearly 

 two feet high, and in some parts of South Africa, where the plant is 

 native, the hushes are Ining in houses to serve as ^\ catchers. — Hit- 



(t(I luji I, . 



The report of the editor just received, shows that the V . S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture issued during 1899 the large nuinljer of 6(>o 

 separate publications, tilling 20,420 printed pages, and including 

 Tj'75,97r) copies. 



Tht- Brychx/tst has been separated from the l^'iii I) nil rt hi and 

 now a})i)ears as a twelve })age (|uarterly under the editorshij) of Dr. A. 

 ,1. (irout and Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith. It will be found invaluable 

 to those who would stud\' our American mosses. 



Mr. William Hunter, of the National Zoological Park, recently 

 collected, in Fairfax County, X'irginia, what seems to be a new species 

 of the Trumpet Creeper [TrconHi). Instead of the more or less crim- 

 son tlower^ of 7. rdi/iciins it is a clear lemon yellow throughout. It is 

 also a tritle smaller in size, and has smaller and slightly ditferent 

 leaves. 



The New York Botanical (iraden has established a sixteen })age 

 monthly journal with Dr. D. T. MacDougal as editor. It will contain 

 notes, news and non-technical articles, more particularly being the 

 results of the investig-ations of the etRcient warden stati'. The Januarv 

 number contains a description and full i)age plate of the newly com- 

 pleted Museum buildina'. 



The very destructive wilt disease of cotton, watermelon, and cow- 

 pea tias been made the subject of exhaustive investigation (Bull. No. 

 IT, of Division of Vegetable Pathology, U. S. De})artment of Agri- 

 culture), by Dr. Krvvin F. Smith, who describes the fungus producing 

 it under the new generic name of Neocosiuophora. The life history 

 has been carefully worked out. 



