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it was issued in parts, at different dates, and as Dr. Torrey expressly says that 

 he had received of the work as far as Pentandria Digynia, it is clear that he 

 had only the first three parts. Dr. Gray (see his notes on the dates of issue of 

 Elliott's sketch in American Journal Science, Series 3, Vol. 13, p. 81, 82,). has fixed 

 the issue of Part III. as on or before April 3, 1817. This again would give the 

 summer of 1817 as the period when the little circle of New York botanists were 

 rejoicing over the possession of three parts of Elliott's work. At this time Dr. 

 Torrey had just attained the age of twenty-one. 



Such allusions as he had occasion in after years to make to Eafinesque's 

 work, were even less complimentary than those of the letter. — J. H. K. 



Editors Gazette: — Young botanists should all thank you for Dr. Torrey's 

 letter, printed in the September Gazette. We all know his reputation as a 

 cautious, careful, grand botanist, and he has been set off too long upon an un- 

 attainable pedestal. But now to find him a very enthusiastic and even rash 

 young man is a revelation and a comfort. Yonng botanists who are so full of 

 eagerness that they expect to do everything in short order and result in doing 

 nothing well, should take courage, for enthusiasm may settle into love, and 

 eagerness be turned into caution.* 



Abnormal Anthemis Cotula. — A late flowering specimen of Anthemis Co- 

 tula presents an anomaly worth noting. The disk-flowers are entirely absent, 

 and the head is composed of from 6-20 ligulate flowers arranged in the " double " 

 fashion. These flowers are all pistillate, whereas the ray-flowers are usually neu- 

 tral. The plant has about 30 heads, all showing the same peculiarity. None of 

 its numerous neighbors were abnormal. — C. R. B. 



Additional Note on IfttilagmeaB.— In the August number of the Gazette 

 reference was made to a Doassansia found growing on Patamogeton by Mr. 

 Fletcher. At the time of writing, Cornu's paper, in which the genus was first 

 described, had not been received in this country. Since then the number of 

 the Annates des Science* containing Cornu's description and plate, has come to 

 hand. The genus is characterized by having globular masses of spores covered 

 by a layer of dark ellipsoidal or prismatic cells. In germination the masses 

 split open and the spores, thus set free, give out short tubes surmounted by a 

 whorl of secondary cells resembling the germination in Tilletia. The species 

 on Potamo /ffmt has been recognized by De Bary as the Sclerotium occuUum of H. 

 Hoffman's Tab. Analyt. Fung. The type of the genus Doassansia, I), alismatis 

 Cornu, was found on Alisma Plantago on an excursion to Lake Minnetonka during 

 the meeting of the A. A. A. S. Entyloma Menispermi was also found in abun- 

 dance near Hotel Lafayette. Entyloma Lobelia' was found at Maiden, Mass., by 

 Mr. A. B. Seymour in July, and I have found it in several localities at Shel- 

 burne, N. II., so that the species is probably common in the East. In the pro- 

 ceedings of the Schlesische Gesellschaft for 1882, an Entyloma Thalictri is men- 

 tioned as a new species, found by Dr. Schroeter. I have not yet seen the de- 

 scription, but it is possible that it is to this species that the form on Thalictrinn, 

 found by Prof. Trelease, should be referred. — W. G. Farlow. 



