262 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



has recently appeared in Germany, under the name of Zeitschriflfiir Plkfreunde, 

 containing "popular articles on edible and noxious fungi." Each number has 

 twenty-four octavo pages and a colored plate with several figures, which, con- 

 sidering the low price of the journal (four marks a year), are fairly executed. 

 The third number contains an article on the preservation and preparation of 

 mushrooms for the table, in which six methods are given for preserving, be- 

 sides drying, and seven recipes for cooking. We can not forbear giving the 

 names of the dishes as an indication of the delicacies allowed to go to waste in 

 our fields: Champignon-fricassee, mushroom sauce, mushroom soup, stuffed 

 mushrooms, champignons a la provencale, champignons a la Cussy, and mush- 

 room ketchup. 



The list op plants from which liquid water exudes is becoming quite 

 large. Volkens describes the water-pores of 150 species, distributed through 91 

 genera and 36 families. 



Chareyre, in Comptes Renchis, traces a connection between cystoliths and 

 the hairs over them. He states that calcification begins in the hair, and in 

 most cases goes on to form a calcareous mass in the epidermis below, which 

 mass is the cystolith. Dr. Goodale, in Science, suggests that it is an interesting 

 fact in this connection that cystoliths occur in leaves of plants which are per- 

 fectly smooth. We would also suggest, as equally interesting, that in Pilea 

 splendid cystoliths occur, which are not in the epidermis at all, but several lay- 

 ers of cells below. 



Mr. W. W. Calkins, of Chicago, has a splendid collection of Florida 

 woods, containing 184 species of the 208 credited to that State. Each specimen 

 is 5 to 10 inches in diameter, and 10 to 12 inches long. A list of the species 

 has been published. 



Mr. George E. Davenport's check list of N. Am. Ferns has just been re- 

 ceived, and should be in the hands of all botanists for convenience in catalogu- 

 ing and exchanging. The moderate price of 25 cents a dozen places them 

 within the reach of every one. The supplement to the catalogue of the Daven- 

 port Herbarium is also in hand, and adds 26 species, one being new. Mr. Da- 

 venport can be addressed at Medford, Mass. 



Dr. H. F. Hance has just described a new Podophyllum, from Formosa, in 

 the Journal of Botany. Heretofore the genus contained but the two species, our 

 own P. peltatum and the Himalayan P. Emodi, but recently discovered in the 

 Tangut country by Przewalsky, and both these species have solitary white flow- 

 ers, differing chiefly in the fact that our species has twice as many stamens as 

 petals, while the Himalayan form has stamens and petals equal in number. 

 This new Chinese Podophyllum (P. plelant/uun) has much larger isostemonous 

 flowers of a dull red color, arranged in a pendulous group of five or six in the 

 fork of the two stem-leaves ; they are bractless and exhale a strong odor of 

 putrefying flesh. This discovery is what might have been expected since the 

 discovery of Diphylleia and Caulophylliun in Japan and Sachalin, and of Jeffer- 

 sonia in Manchuria. 



