8 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, September and October. — These are very inter- 

 esting numbers, being full of valuable observations. Mr. Leggett is getting out another 

 edition (it may be issued before this reaches the readers of the Gazette,) of the Botanical 

 Directory. We regret that we are not able to give it wider notice owing to our begin- 

 ning Vol. III. with the year, instead of publishing November and December numbers. 

 We hope that all our readers will be prompt with information and with orders for cop- 

 ies. The price will be for a single copy, 40 cents; three copies for |1.00; a dozen for 

 $3.00. Address Wm. H. Leggett, 54 Eighty-first street, New York. 



Field and Forest, October- — The Botanical Articles are "A Botanist's Winter Even- 

 ings," by W. W. Bailey, and "Notes on the Fungi of Maryland." 



Proceedings of tlie Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Part II., April, May, 

 June, July and August, 1877. — The Botanical Notes are "On the Eucalyptus globulus,'^ by 

 Jos. Wharton, "Poisonous Properties of the Leguminosae," by Dr. J. T. Rothrock, and 

 "The Lacquer Tree," by Thos. Meehan. 



Bulletin of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, 1877. — The most of this num- 

 ber is devoted to the "Mycological Flora of Minnesota," by Dr. A. E. Johnson. In it arp 

 listed 559 species all new to the State, two of which are new to science. Two divisicms, 

 six families, twenty orders, and seventy-seven genera are represented. Dr. W. H. Leon- 

 ard gives a list of the Ferns of Minnesota, enumerating 30 species. 



Qatalogus Plantarum in Nova Ccesarea Repertarum. — If any Slate deserves a cata- 

 logue of its plants, surely New Jersey does, for its rich and varied flora has made it 

 the Mecca of botanists. Dr. Oliver R. Willis has made this a very complete and hand- 

 some publication. He gives hints to beginners, and a list of plants recommended for 

 their use, directions^for drying and preserving plants, and a botanical director^'. He 

 enumerates 1,603 species of Phsenogamous plants, 40 species of Equisetaceaj, Filices, 

 and Lycopodiaceae, and 28 species of Marine Alga?. There are 325 species of Musci, and 

 190 species of Hepaticae found in the State, but not named in this catalo.ue, thus mak- 

 ing an aggregate of 2,196 species of plants in the State. 



American Naturalist, November. — A note on "Poisonous Grasses," gives the symp- 

 toms and antidotes for the poisoning resulting from eating Stipa Sibirica. Melica and 

 Lolium are also spoken of as poisonous. An unusually large specimen of Ostrya Vir- 

 gintca'is, put on record. The girt of the stem at the ground was 9 feet 11 inches, at 4 

 feet from the ground 7 feet 2 inches; height to first branches 6 feel 4 inches; spread of 

 branches from east to west 47 feet, from north to south 45 feet ; height of tree 48 feet 7 

 inches. If any larger individual has been observed we would like to hear of it. 



I much desire herbarium specimens of Mertensia paniculata and 3f. mnritima. AVill 

 exchange for them M. cdpina and^lf. lanceolata of the Rocky Mountain Alpine region. — 

 H. N. Patterson, Oquawka, III. 



Mr. Marcus E. Jones has sets of 500 species of Iowa plants, well preserved and very 

 carefully pressed, which he will deliver to purchasers for $20.00 per set. Address him 

 at Grinnell, Iowa. 



All communicatiorvs should he addrested to 



John M. Coulter, Hanover, Ind., 

 or, M. S. Coulter, Logansport, Ind, 



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