

Botanical Gazette. 



Vol. VI. 



NOVEMBER, 1881. 



No. 11, 



Editorial. — M. D'ARBAUMONxhas begLiii the publication of an 

 elaborate paper on the anatomy of "The Stem of the Ampelidai." 



Trimen's Journal for October records the death of Freder'ck 

 Ci'rrey, for 20 years secretary of the Linnean Society. 



VVe brought Dr. Gray home sooner than he intended. He sails 

 from England on October 26, arriving here probably about the 4th or 

 5th of November. 



Dr. J. ScHNECK has found Artemisia annua growing plentifully in 

 Daviess county, Ind., and says that it was the greenest weed to be seen 

 at the end of the nine weeks drought. 



Mr. C. G. Pringle has spent the past summ.er in the west. He 

 has collected many good things in Arizona, near Tucson, and is now 

 in Oregon. Such a collector will bring in much new material. 



Mr. J. A. Sanford, of Toledo, Ohio, is preparing a catalogue 

 of Lucas County plants. Such a county should yield richly, as it lies 

 along the lake and contains the swampy mouth of the Maumee River. 



Mr. Thos. Meehan has been observing Talinum tcrcfifo/iuvi and 

 finds that its flowers always open regularly at i p. m.; though for one 

 season they closed promptly at two and the next at any tmie between 

 two and five. 



The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union has what are called "Fun- 

 gus Forays," to which all mycologists are cordially invited. Why not 

 have "Lichen Liftings," "Moss Meanderings," "Fern Frolics," and 

 "Exogenous Excursions?" 



Prof. W. J. Beal has 200 different grasses and clovers growing, 

 each in a separate bed, in the garden attached to the Michigan Agri 

 cultural College. It has taken several years to make the collection, 

 which is being added to yearly. 



Sir John Lubbock in observing the seeds of Stipa pcnnatd has 

 discovered that they take advantage of the action of the wind, and 

 are thus buried by the corkscrew-like movement of the twisted awn. 

 In his observations apparently the question of hydroscopic action was 

 eliminated. 



Prof. F. L. Harvey, in the last Gazette, p. 273, was made to 

 say that Quercus Michatixii in Arkansas attained the prodigious size of 

 19 feet in diameter. He asks us to change the word "diameter" to 

 "circumference," so that the statement may sound more within the 

 bounds of reason. 



