

Botanical Gazette. 



Vol. VII. JANUARY, 1882. No. 1. 



Editorial. — We make no promises for Vol. VII, except that it 

 shall lie better than any before it. With the last volume the catalogue 

 of Indiana plants was published in the fiirm of extras. Some material 

 is now in hand to be published with the present volume, of even more 

 general interest, and we feel confident that the one dollar subscription 

 will be thought but a small return for value received. 



M. Crie, before the Academy of Sciences of Paris, in a paper "On 

 some new cases of phosphorescence in plants," reported for the first 

 time emission of light in certain of the Ascomycetes. 



Rev. A. B. Langlois has just published a list of the very inter- 

 esting plants found in Plaquemines County, La. The list numbers 

 456, and of course the author does not claim that it is complete. 



Mr. J. F. James, of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, 

 has, in the last Journal of that Society, a paper on the variability of 

 the acorns of Quercus macrocarpa. He has sketched eight very different 

 looking acorns as belonging to this single species. 



Mr. Aug. Foerste, of Dayton, Ohio, writes that Mr. Samuel Wel- 

 ter, a farmer near Centreville, brought him a Lycoperdon %iganteum x 20 

 inches in diameter, with a vertical diameter of 15 inches. It weighs 

 17^ pounds and was just beginning to turn yellowish green. 



Mr. John Robinson has published a list of the dates of flowering 

 of trees and shrubs in Eastern Massachusetts in 1880. Although the 

 Red and White Maples showed flowers in January on account of a few 

 warm days, the season of flowers did not begin before the first ot 

 April. 



The genera of Composite changed by Bentham and Hooker 

 areas follows: Manila becomes An/hemis, Leucanthemum becomes 

 Chrysanthemum, Cacalia becomes Senecio, Lappa becomes Arctium, 

 Cynthia becomes Krigia, Mulgedium becomes Lactuca, Nabalus be- 

 comes Prenanthes. 



We take pleasure in calling the attention of our subscribers to 

 the advertisement of W. N. Suksdorf. The plants he offers for sale so 

 reasonably are very fine, as some large bundles just received abun- 

 dantly testify. He has many new species, though he is in doubt how 

 long species are considered new. 



Mr. A. H. Curtiss has just sent out Fascicle V of his invaluable 

 Florida collections. It contains several new species and very many 

 not in Dr Chapman's Manual. No sooner is the work off hands than 

 this indefatiguable collector is off again to South Florida, whose flora 

 he intends to complete with Fascicle VI. 



