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Botanical Gazette. 



Vol. VII. DECEMBER, 1882. No. 12. 



Editorial. — J. B. Ellis and Dr. G. B. Martin, in the Decem- 

 ber Naturalist describe 24 new species of North American Fungi. 



The Genus Panicum has had enumerated under it as many 

 as 850 species, which have now been reduced to 250. 



The Popular Science Monthly for December contains a 

 portrait and sketch ot Matthias Jacob Schleiden, a name insepara- 

 bly connected with plant histology. 



The Gardener's Monthly continues to hold its own and its 

 indefatiguable editor collects every month a great amount of 

 • material which must be of great interest to the class of persons 

 addressed. 



Mr. Harry N. Patterson, of Oquawka, 111., is about to print 

 some very neat genus labels, including all the North American 

 genera down to Azolla, numbering about 1500. They can be 

 obtained at the rate of 20 cents per hundred, no orders being taken 

 for less than the whole number. 



The American Naturalist closes its sixteenth volume hand- 

 somely and is well entitled to the position of the most popular 

 scientific periodical in the country. The department of botany, 

 under the direction of Prof. Bessey, has been a great success during 

 the past year and promises the same for the next. 



Mr. J. G. Lemmon continues to advertise his splendid collec. 

 tions at a very low price. Sets of Phsenogams are oifered at $7.50 

 per 100, while over 70 species of ferns, containing several new to 

 North America, and some new to science, can be obtained at 15 

 cents each. New species are offered at 25 cents each. 



Prof. W. J. Beal has long been experimenting in the cross- 

 breeding of Indian corn. During the last season some "crossed 

 seed" was planted, having been obtained from parents raised 100 

 miles apart, both of the same variety. The result was that "the 

 crossed stock exceeded the pure stock of the best parent as 121 

 exceeds 100." 



Among the Editorials of the last Gazette was one referring 

 to the "nutlet" of Hamamelis, which should of course read "seeds." 

 It nn>ht have been mentioned in the same connection that the 



