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Botanical Gazette. 



Vol. VII. MAY, 1882. No. 5. 



Editorial. — The American Forestry Association held its 

 first annual meeting in Cincinnati, April 25-29. With Dr. John 

 A. Warder as President, the convention could not well help being 

 one of great interest. 



Mr. Thomas Meehan writes that the European snowdrop flow- 

 ered near Philadelphia on the 1st of April this year, and that Frit- 

 illaria pudica, within a few feet of it, was only four days after. 



Joseph Decaisne, the most eminent botanist in France, the di- 

 rector of the Jardin des Plantes ever since the death of Mirbel, the 

 Professor of Culture in the Museum of Natural History at Pans 

 for more than forty years, died on the 8th of February, 1882, in the 

 75th year of his age. 



We have just received information of the death of Mr. William 

 H. Leggett, tor so long a time the editor of the Torrey Bulletin. 

 He died April 11th and in the absence of particulars we will await 

 the notice which will appear in the journal with which he has been 

 so honorably connected. 



Mr. Thomas Howell, of Sauvies' Island, Oregon, has published 

 a catalogue of the plants of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, in- 

 cluding the mosses. He offers to furnish botanists their desiderata 

 at ten cents, and full sets at five cents per species. Mr. Howell's 

 plants have proved very satisfactory. 



The Agricultural College at Lansing, Michigan, seems to 

 have quite an active Natural History Society, judging from accounts 

 of it given in The College Speculum. Prof. W. J. Beal, of course, 

 contributes largely to the botanical interest, but the best of it is 

 that he is ably assisted not only by professors but by students. 



Part V, of Dr. Braithwaite's British Moss-Flora, published 

 at the close of the last year, has come to hand. It contains Leu- 

 cobryum and a part of 'the Dicranacece. Twenty-five species are 

 beautifully figured on the three plates. This work is specially re- 

 commended to American botanists. Even if we get our long hoped- 

 for Manual, we shall still need an illustrated work like this. 



Prof. C. E. Bessey has recently met with a severe loss which 

 calls forth the sympathies of his many botanical friends. On April 



